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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: "K&H Finance Ltd" <feliciadanladi002@gmail.com>
Reply-To: khfinanceltd@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2023 14:51:30 +0100
Subject: ATTENTION: EMAIL OWNER


ATTENTION: EMAIL OWNER

You have a compensation of 1.5 Million Euro from the International Monetary
Fund - IMF AND the United Nations – UN, Finance World Bank from the funds
recovered from online scammers going on around the world 25 percent of the
recovered funds is spent for charity. And the International Monetary Fund -
IMF AND the United Nations – UN also promised the remaining 25% to give
away this year; You have been selected to receive this compensation of
1,500,000.00 Euro. This is part of the International Monetary Fund - IMF
AND the United Nations – UN, promises to the charity project this year,
reason for this compensation, is to improve the lives of many individuals
in your local area and for your personal use and so on.

The leaders of the world's crime fighters, I.M.F. AND UN, have come
together to inform the world what is going on, and we have recovered over
(five hundred and twenty-two Million dollars) around the world.

We are looking forward to hearing from you to enable us to process your
compensation funds transfer to your specified bank account or A MasterCard
will be issued in your favour which contains a total sum of 1.5 million
Euro will be shipped to your destination home address through DHL Company.

On behalf of the International Monetary Fund – IMF AND the Financial
Department of the United Nations, I have been authorized to contact you.
reply for more information.

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