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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: Olena Shcherbakova <olenashcherbakova07@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2023 03:10:32 -0800
Subject: Scam victim Beneficiary,


Scam Compensation Sum of US $ 11.5 Million dollars has been approved
through the World Bank Mass Assisted Project Deposit Fund. This
compensation payment was initiated to assist those who have failed prey to
fraudulent business / communications in different categories, Inheritance,
Contracts, Lottery, Romance Scam, Diplomatic

Payment, Fraudulent Loan Transactions, Unsuccessful Investment
transactions, bitcoin fraud,property sale scam . Those who have also failed
victim of BEC Scams also known as Wire transactions, Mass project assisted
fund was approved to settle failed business / scam, you are qualified to
receive this approved investment funds as long as you have received
fraudulent proposal before, many people have suffered untold lost /
hardship in the hands of those unscrupulous elements and evil-minded people
operating all kinds of fraud / scam just to make a dirty living and misery
out of innocent souls. you are entitled to receive this scam compensation
funds as long as you have received a scam / fraudulent message through
whichever way, also those that their business was affected by the Covid-19
pandemic.

In Addition: We have concluded our confidential global investigation
exercise which confirmed through our site light fraud monitoring radar that
you were involved in a scam transaction with some group of fraud syndicates
operating from different parts of the world by impersonating different
existing and unexiting facilities. I presumed you may be wondering why you
have not received any funds after obeying their instructions to send them
money, sending unending fees to them without receiving one dollar cent,
give this opportunity the benefit of doubt and see what happens next. How
long will you continue to listen to them? Please wake up from your slumber
or those people will wreck you without any benefit.

NB: You will receive further shocking clarification upon your response to
this message. disregard whatever transaction you are doing with those
scammers, better send us details of your transaction for a security check
of authenticity through a security global verification data system, is
better to confirm the authenticity of your transaction than to waste money
which you shall regret in the end. This is the new global transaction
reference code(HDYRT46/MBNTUT), Disregard any message from anywhere without
this approved transaction code.


Yours Sincerely,

Micheal Bricks
Consultant agent (FIMS)
Global Financial Security Monitoring Unit
Phone: +44-7480-7294-01
Information: The phone number is also on whatsapp.

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