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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: GEORGE MCCONNELL <lyakamonica@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mcconnellg89@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2023 08:19:58 -0700
Subject: ATTENTION

--
CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR 2021 WINNING FROM ROLLaS ROYCE COMPANY.

You have acquired/win amount of $7millions DOLLARS ($7,000,000.
Which will be given to you by Check. And also won one
of the latest ROLLS ROYCE 2021 masonry -wild Luxury coup_car, After
the online randomly selection of
emails and phone numbers. You are among the 10 lucky selected winners
,So this has been mandated to be delivered to your home address. Please
kindly get back to me with the reconfirmation of your full info such
as:
YOUR FULL NAME===
YOUR Full ADDRESS ==
YOUR PHONE NUMBER ==
YOUR OCCPATION ==
I'm respectively waiting for your response as soon as possible ,so
that I can proceed with delivery.

Sincerely ,
Mr George McConnell

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