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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. Steven Dikeman" <info@catou.com.tw>
Reply-To: blacktowhitelist@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2023 15:31:55 -0700
Subject: REGARDING YOUR TRANSFER

Dear sir/Madam,

You can finally Receive your fund after period of obstacles you have experienced

This message is from the Department of Blacklist Removal Office Globally. We have decided to communicate with you today due to our discovery of you 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 ON GLOBAL FINANCIAL CENTRES INDEX which makes it impossible for you to receive your inheritance/Contractual fund.

However, we are advocating and advising you to stop wasting your money in the name of receiving your inheritance/Contractual until your name is removed from the BLACKLIST ON GLOBAL FINANCIAL CENTRES INDEX and enter into the WHITELIST ON INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL CRIME FREE INDEX. 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.

Perhaps, if you want your name to be remove from the BLACKLIST ON GLOBAL FINANCIAL CENTRES INDEX and place it in Global WHITELIST ON INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL CRIME FREE INDEX then contact this office or you keep having problems receiving your funds after sending so much money to them.
The requirement for removing your name from the Blacklist are as follow

Your full Name..............
Your home address.......
Cell Phone number......
Your occupation...........
Your international passport/or driver’s license /or state I.D

Above all, you are obliged to pay the sum of $850 for 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.
As soon as the payment is confirmed, we shall immediately remove your name and you can receive your fund without having to pay any other money which you are having difficulty paying
Informing your online partners about this email will not be to your favour as is better to take them by surprise without the fee they are asking you to pay.

Thanks,
Mr. Steven Dikeman
Director Global Financial Centres Index
Email: mibal@netgate.com.uy
Email: blacktowhitelist@gmail.com

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