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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2023 13:38:48 -0500
Subject: *****SPAM***** You must reply to our office direct email address:
italiainterpol45@gmail.com





You must reply to our office direct email address: italiainterpol45@gmail.com

Attention Beneficiary,

We bring to your notice the arrest of some fraudsters here in Italy who
have been defrauding their victims with the intention of giving them Loan,
Fake Lottery Winning, Romance Scam, Investment Proposal, Funds Transfer,
Donation Funds etc. We arrested them with the help of our Special
Intelligence and Investigation Team due to the report we received from
Internet Fraud complainant blogs and different people from Africa, Europe,
Asia, Australia and America. Huge amounts of funds were recovered from
these arrested Internet scammers and the Italian Government organized a
Fund Compensation Program to compensate victims of these internet fraud.
Your Email Address and other 20 Email Addresses were selected from the
list of email addresses provided by these arrested fraudsters as their
victim. €500,000.00 Euro have been approved for each of you who happens to
be a victim of internet fraud and the Italian Interpol Cyber-crime Unit
has been mandated for the safe disbursement of these funds to you. Payment
method is via Direct Wire Transfer to you. We expect that you respond to
this email immediately as your funds have been filed for release to you
once we receive your email with the below details.

You must reply to our office direct email address: italiainterpol45@gmail.com

Full names:
Sex:
Age:
Marital Status:
Telephone Number:
Home Address:
Country:
Occupation:
A copy of your valid Identity card:
Your Bank account details you will use to receive your funds:

You must reply to our office direct email address: italiainterpol45@gmail.com

We are sorry for what you must have gone through in the hands of these
fraudsters as we are doing our best to arrest and prosecute more of these
scammers. Hope to hear from you soon.
Regards,
Detective Lidaysy Molina
Interpol, Italy.
You must reply to our office direct email address: italiainterpol45@gmail.com

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Convención Internacional Científica y Tecnológica de la Universidad de Camagüey
Ignacio Agramonte Loynaz del 22 al 26 de mayo de 2023, en Camagüey, Cuba.

Universidad de Camaguey "Ignacio Agramonte Loynaz", Cuba http://www.reduc.edu.cu/

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