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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: United States President <alertoffgm1@gmail.com>
Reply-To: presidential_off_2013@live.com
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2023 05:02:02 -0800
Subject: Your Payment Via ATM Visa Card Will Be Shipped To Your House Address:

Executive Office of the President United States American.
Office Address: 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20500, United States,
Payment Value: $36,500.000.00 USD
RE/NO: 002-US/0047/2023
*************24 HRS SERVICE ***************

Your Payment Via ATM Visa Card Will Be Shipped To Your House Address:

Dear Beneficiary,

This is to inform you officially that after our investigations with
the help of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Homeland Security
Office, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and other Security Agencies
in the Country for the year 2023, we discovered that you have not
receive your Outstanding Compensation Payments valued US$36.5 Million
only, I Just received a call from Mr. JERRY MEYER, the Director Of DHL
Express that your Outstanding compensation fund worth US$36.5 Million
Dollars which I sent to you from U.S President Office has been
returned back due to wrong address provided, I advise you to reconfirm
your name and correct house address, Phone number, Occupation and Age
to enable us resend the compensation fund to you immediately. You will
receive your Outstanding payments via a ATM VISA CARD PAYMENTS not a
WIRE TRANSFERS

As soon as the above mentioned details are received, your ATM Visa
Card worth US$36.5 Million will be delivered to your house address
without any further delay,I am very sorry for the delay you have gone
through in the past years. Thanks for adhering to this instruction and
once again accept my congratulations in advance.

We do await your response, so we can move on with this transaction and
make sure your funds gets to you.

NOTE: You are not to contact any office(s) or person(s) for mistake in
the release of your funds to you apart from the information stated
above.

Finally, I want you to note that your funds is save with us, be inform
that this mail is not a spam or scam message, the US Government can
release your fund today if we received reply from you, base that I
have included my name Mr. Joe Biden and my SSN: 768 67 6797
for you to know that I am for real and not a scam if you need to
verify me, so stop dealing with any body if you have some imposters
you are dealing with and focus on getting your fund here from
Executive Office of the President United States American,

We wait for your prompt response on this email.

Thanks,

Signed:
Yours Faithfully,
Mr. Joe Biden.
President of the United States Of America.

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