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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: "James Adebayo" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <isaacdouglas101@rogers.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:30:28 +0100
Subject: NOTIFICATION OF PAYMENT VIA COMPENSATION AND AWARD AUTHORITY

Attention,

How are you doing today? I am Mr.James Adebayo of the compensation office Nigeria, I got a verification email from Mrs.Mary Sanchez who informed me that you had some unfinished transaction with a firm in the past and you were unable to finalize it due to one or two improper organisational procedure.

note that we are also aware of the uncompleted transaction you had with the Bank in Nigeria and we are hereby using this means to grant you a waiver as the Federal Minstry of Finance here in our country is making sure that the names of all those fake banks and organisations are brought to book for justice.

You are also adviced to forward to me the informations of this bank you transacted with for verification purposes so that we can make arrangement for proper investigation and sue them for organisational theft.

The central Bank of Nigeria has ordered every bank pending payment to make it available to the Federal Minstry of Fianace and as soon as we confirm the rghtfull beneficiary the job shall be executed.

we wish to inform you that our organization is most compitent for its services and therefore we take extra cautions in releasing payments to anybody.

Mrs.Mary Sanchez has been a victim of scam artist here in Nigeria and this has given our country a bad reputation so our organization is making sure that rightfull benefiicaries recieve thier rightfully devidents. After the arrival of Mrs.Mary Sanchez here in Nigeria, she was shown the process and been made to understand that only the payment of US$320 is required for legal documentations which would be all that is needed for the transfer of your funds in which ever means is preffered by you.

Due to theft and impersonation's reputation of our organization, we need you to reconfirm your informations as been listed in our directory of beneficiaries here in our listing for the release of funds payments. informations required are as follows:

Full Names:
Address:
zip Code:
Country:
Telephone Number:
Age:

Marital Status:
Slect Payment Type: (Inheritance) (Compensation) (Contract funds)

Amount expected:


You are adviced to forward this information to our gent Mr. Isaac Douglas in charge of releasing the approval slip before we commence on work on your file.
Contact him directly on the information below.

COMPENSATION AWARD HOUSE
Name : Mr. Isaac Douglas
Email: isaacdouglas101@rogers.com
Phone:+234-702-628-6528

As soon as your informations fits in the above, you have every reason to believe that funds would be released to you just as it has been released to Mrs. Mary Sanchez and other beneficiaries listed.

Note that type of payment varies for the release of funds from this compensation office, its either:
1) You come over to Nigeria to claim your fund in cash from the issuing bank (ZENITH BANK)
2) Accept an online transfer from the banks website (ZENITH BANK).

Yours in Service,
Mr.James Adebayo
(Compensation Officer)
COMPENSATION AWARD HOUSE


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