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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: "Mr.Donald Anderson" <serenasunderland578@gmail.com>
Reply-To: nsmy08785@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2023 16:45:40 +0100
Subject: From Mr.Donald Anderson

Dear sir/Madam,

This message is from the Department of Blacklist Removal office Globally,
why we have decided to communicate with you today is because we
have discovered that you are pursuing too many transactions on
internet in which all are failing you after wasting too much money in
pursuing them , some of these transactions are FAKE and Some are REAL
but the reason you have not received any fund is because your name is
on BLACKLIST which makes it impossible for you to send money out
and also receive your inheritance funds out of the country or within,
so it is better you stop wasting your money in the name of receiving
your inheritance funds until your name is removed from the BLACKLIST
and enter into the .WHITELIST, blacklist is a list of people or
groups regarded as unacceptable or untrustworthy and often marked down
for exclusion or blocked from receiving huge amount of funds outside
the country or within the country.

So if you want to remove your name from the blacklist and place it in
Global white-list then contact this office or you keep having
problems receiving your funds after sending so much money to them.The
requirement for removing your from the Blacklist are as follow

A...Your full Name..............
B...Your home address.......
C......Cele Phone number......
D....Your occupation...........
E...Country.................. .....
F..Your international passport/or drivers license /or state I.D

Above all, you are obliged to pay the sum of $$850 for the insurance of
removing your name from the blacklist but please do not contact us if
you know that you cannot pay this fee but if you are willing to remove
your name from the blacklist then kindly work with our instructions
immediately,and after that we shall transfer your total
funds of any amount stated as your inheritance, contract or Lotto,
into your Bank account or any means by which you
want to receive your fund, while this department of global .Blacklist
office which located any where in the globe, right from America,
Europe,Asia Africa Australia.
Contact in person of
Thanks,
Mr.Donald Anderson,

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