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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: Bill Bob <bbob53512@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2023 13:50:11 +0100
Subject: ATTN: SCAMMED VICTIM/1MILLION BENEFICIARY.REF/PAYMENTS CODE:06654 1
MILLION USD.

ATTN: SCAMMED VICTIM/5.5MILLION BENEFICIARY.REF/PAYMENTS CODE:06654 1
MILLION USD.

This is to bring to your notice that I am delegated from the United
Nations to Barclays Bank of London to pay 100 Nigerian 419 scam
victims $4.5 Million each, you are listed and approved for this payments
as one of the scammed victims, get back to us as soon as possible for
the immediate payments of your $5.5 Million compensations funds.

On this faithful recommendations, I want you to know that during the
last UN meetings held at London, England, it was alarmed so much by
the rest of the world in the meetings on the lose of funds by various
foreigners to the scams artists operating in syndicates all over the
world today. In other to retain the good image of the country, the
British Prime Minister is now paying 100 victims of this operators $4.5
Million USD each this is because British is the father of Nigeria
since they are the colonel father and they gave Nigeria independent,
Due to the corrupt and inefficient banking systems in Nigeria, the
payments are to be paid by Barclays Bank as corresponding paying bank
under funding assistance by the Bank of England.

According to the number of applicants at hand, 80 beneficiaries has
been paid ,half of the victims are from the United States, we still
have more 20 left to be paid the compensations of $4.5 Million each.
Your particulars was mentioned by one of the syndicates who was
arrested in Lagos Nigeria as one of their victims of the operations,
you are hereby warned not to communicate or duplicate this message to
him for any reason what so ever, the US secret service is already on
trace of the criminal.

For more vital information, please
visit:http://home.ri.net/alphae/419coal/news1jul.htm. You can receive
your compensations payments via any of the both options you choose,
DRAFT, PAYMENTS or WIRE TRANSFERS, I shall feed you with further
modalities as soon as i hear from you.

Yours faithfully,
Mr Charles Brown .

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