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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: Yvonne Becks <yvonnebecks74@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2023 18:13:18 +0200
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS

Good day

You are hereby officially informed that you have emerged a winner of the
World Internet Society Lottery International Program that was drawn a few
days ago and your email address won the sum $820,000.00. Your email details
were generated with the algorithm Ref details that was earlier sent to you
via your email account. Online participants were selected through a
referral program using internet cookies and winners were picked by the
computer algorithm syntax systems drawn from 25,000,000 online internet
users' email accounts from Australia, South America, Far East Asia, Europe,
Africa and North America as part of the global program.

The international internet society organization aims to use this
opportunity to compensate daily and prompt online internet users but due to
the mix up of some numbers and email accounts, winners are advised to keep
this prize award strictly confidential from the general public until all
claims have been processed and cash prize released to your desired bank
account. This will also help to avoid unwarranted abuse of the program by
unauthorized claimants.

Below are the contact details of the fiduciary agent who is authorized to
process and release your cash prize. Be advised to make contact with the
agent as soon as possible for your claims to commence.

Name: Mr Themba Lyod

Email:thembalyod@gmail.com

(Fiduciary Claims Consultant)

Prizes must be claimed not later than 8 working days from today. After
these stipulated days, all unclaimed fund will be returned as an unclaimed
prize and will be channelled to charity especially towards the production
of COVID 19, MONKEYPOX pandemic vaccine and information awareness in
collaboration with the World Health Organization (W.H.O.)

Congratulations and thank you for being part of the global promotions
program.

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