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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. Bill" <retiree@yy.com>
Reply-To: pe971396@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2023 20:44:15 -0700
Subject: 78.133.123.174

Hello

My name is Bill Lawrence a Retiree, On December 16, 2019, I was declared the winner of $150 million Powerball jackpot, which claim Northern Nevada largest lottery win in the state's history. After much consultations with my family, I have voluntarily decided to donate the sum of $650,000.00 USD to you, this being part of our Charitable Donation Project to financially support Five (5) lucky people and Five (5) charity organisations from different parts of the world.

Your email was luckily selected via a Google & Facebook sponsored email-draws, and we decided to put this on the internet for the world to see in other to relinquish any doubts.

Please follow the News Link below for more info;

https://www.powerball.com/winner-story/150-million-powerball-ticket-claimed

For immediate release of these donated funds, send your *Full Names:……,*Tel:….. *Age:…..& *Country:…..and we will instruct our payout Bank to Load the sum of $650,000.00 to Mastercard and send it to your Home Address In your country.

So get back to us quickly via email so that we can proceed.

Congratulations & Stay Safe.

Regards,
Bill Lawrence.

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