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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: Amancio Ortega <jamesbronze6@gmail.com>
Reply-To: sir.amancioortega@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2023 16:57:14 +0100
Subject: Congratulation!!! Urgent reply.

Greetings to you,

You have been gifted US$5.5 Million (FIVE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED
THOUSAND UNITED STATE DOLLARS) in 2023 Donation Funds. Contact me only
at my private email below for your claiming:
sir.amancioortega@gmail.com

I hope this information reach to you well, I know you will be curious
to know why and how I selected you to receive a cash sum of US$5.5
Million (FIVE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATE DOLLARS). Our
information below is 100% legitimate. I Mr. Amancio Ortega and my wife
Rosalia fashion businessman; and founding chairman of the Inditex
fashion group of Zara clothing showrooms around the world, we map out
this funds donation every Year to 30 countries all over the world
where our companies are located in the world. Please see the link
below:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amancio_Ortega

My wife and I decided to donate the sum of US$5.5 Million to you as
part of our charity project to improve the lot of 30 lucky individuals
all over the world from our $68.3 Billion "Help the World Project"
reserve. This has been an agreement between me and My Wife to help
people before she died.

We prayed and searched over the internet for assistance because I saw
your profile on Microsoft email owners list and picked you. Rosalia my
wife and I have decided to make sure this is put on the internet for
the world to see. My wife had cancer and she died at Colchester
regional hospital.

My wife just didn't die but she lived and died as great person and I
miss her so much, that is why I have decided to do one thing I
promised her forever. As you could see from the web image above, I am
not getting any younger and you can imagine having no much time to
live. Although I am a Billionaire Investor and we have helped some
charity organizations from our Fund.

You see, after taken care of the needs of all our immediate family
members; before she died we decided to donate the remaining of our
Billions to other individuals around the world in need; the local fire
department, the red cross, Haiti, hospitals in Truro where Rosalia
underwent her cancer treatment, and some other organizations in Asia
and Europe that fight cancer, Alzheimer's and diabetes and the bulk of
the funds deposited with our payout bank of this charity donation.

We have kept just 40% of the entire sum to our self for the remaining
days because I am sick and am writing you from hospital computer
slowly living out the rest of my life. To facilitate the payment
process of the funds (5.5) which have been donated solely to you, you
are to send:

Your full names...…..
Your contact address...…
Your personal telephone number...…
You’re Date of birth...….
Your Marital Status...….
Your Occupation...…..
One Passport photographs or any of your valid Identity

I can forward your payment information to you immediately those
details are received. I am hoping that you will be able to use the
money wisely and judiciously over there in your country. Please, you
have to do your part to also alleviate the level of poverty in your
region.

Help as many as you can help once you received the money and deposit
in your personal account because that is the only objective of
donating this money to you in the first place. I like to re-assure you
of the legitimacy of this service as we will not be involved in any
fraudulent act and will never be.

Use the money wisely; we only want to feel good by helping people this
time of the year. This is the only thing that makes my wife happy too
even now that she is not here with me anymore, we have too much to
give away as I only have a few months left on earth.

I will advise you as the prospective lucky Person to be calm not to
loose this great opportunity which millions of people are trying to
entangle but the chances just couldn't come for them because a lot of
people are out there to discourage them as they don't know how it
works, and have never seen such before. Thank you for accepting our
offer, congratulations once more.

God bless you

Mr. Amancio Ortega.
Once world’s second-richest man Billionaire investor.

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