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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: "Mrs. Betty J"
Reply-To: <mrs.bettywright@ymail.com>
Date: Thu, 25 May 2023 00:34:25 -0700
Subject: Installment On Your Behalf.

Having understood your unstable situation, we in the United Nations pleaded with Nimble Financial Security Firm, to accept payment by installment on your behalf, to enable beneficiaries receive their payment that we may reconcile with all countries of the world. We understood your plight as someone who has endured a lot to get this fund into your private account.
 
Write the Nimble Financial Security Firm , and request that you want the money to be transferred to your account by install-mental or in full payment, so that once the first payments gets into your account you can then use money from there to facilitate the transfer of the rest, once the first installments enters into your account that will equally give you another opportunity to do a test-transfer and withdrawal from your account to master Federal Reserve Online transfer procedure.
 
By calculations: if $500 can handle US$10Million then $250 can also comfortably transfer the sum of US$5Million. Once the US$5Million is successfully transferred, you can withdraw money from there to handle the transfer of the rest of US$5Million.
 
NOTE: Write the Nimble Financial Security Firm , to tell them how much you have in hands so that the Nimble Financial Security Firm we calculate to tell you how much you may receive as first payment through installments, Do not be shy to indicate the amount you have in hands (no proper-amount is little to trigger installments-payment base on our discussion with the Nimble Financial Security Firm so that the first payment will move to your account for you to confirm the existence of the fund before your proceed for the balance.
 
Finally, we have chosen Nimble Financial Security Firm to release your Fund to you, so you are therefore advised to contact the Nimble Financial Security Firm with the following information. Do contact: MR. David R Bricker email address ( nimblefinanciallsecuriity@gmail.com ) Send him your direct phone number and contact address as we sincerely apologize for the plight you have gone through in the past while trying to receive your money. Thanks for adhering to this instruction and once again accepting our congratulations.
 
Congratulations!
 
 
Mrs. Betty J. Friend wright.
(UN) SECRETARY GENERAL
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