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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: "INTERPOL OFFICE" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <interpolofficemail.us@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 17:08:25 +0430
Subject: ATTN: BENEFICIARY!!!

Re: ATTENTION FROM INTERPOL!!!


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brianvanguyen@juno.com
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show details Mar 1 (3 days ago)

The scammer like you always use this tactic to scam people.

Please verify your ID, NY office phone, address of location, I will contact FBI for verification

---------- Original Message ----------
INTERNATIONAL POLICE UNITED STATES SECTION
Region No. 2 New York City
P.O. Box 804 Knickerbockers Station
New York City, New -York 10002-0804 U.S.A.


Attn: Beneficiary

The office of the international police (INTERPOL) hereby write to inform you that we caught a diplomatic lady called Mrs. Dorothy Wallace at (John F. Kennedy International Airport) here in New -York with parcel box filed with united state dollars.

Meanwhile, base on our interview to the diplomat (Mrs. Dorothy Wallace) she said that the parcel box belongs to you, that she was sent by Alh. Ahmadu Giade of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency Nigeria to deliver the parcel box to your doorstep, not knowing that the content of the parcel box is money. The diplomat also said that her first transit in the states was at Cincinnati Northern, Kentucky International Airport Ohio.

Now, the diplomat is under detention in the office of (INTERPOL) security, and we cannot release her until we carry out our proper investigation on how this huge amount of money managed to be yours before we will release her with the box. So, in this regard, you are to re-assure and prove to us that the money you are about to receive is legal by sending us the Award Ownership Certificate showing that the money is not illegal.

Note that the Award Ownership Certificate must to be secured from the office of the Senate president in Nigeria, because that is the only office that will issue you the original Award Ownership Certificate of these funds.

You are advised to forward immediately the Award Ownership Certificate if you have it with you, but if you do not have it, we will urge you as a matter of urgency to contact back the sender of the diplomat to help you secure the Award Ownership Certificate if at all you did not have it.

Below is the contact information of the person that sent the diplomat.

Name: Alh. Ahmadu Giade
Email: ahmadugiadeoffice@mail.mn
Direct telephone no: +234-8120672033.

Furthermore, we are giving you only but 5 working business days to forward the requested Award Ownership Certificate.

Please note that we shall get back to you after the 5 working business days, if you didnÃÕ come up with the certificate we shall confiscate the funds into World Bank account then charge you for money laundry, but if you forward the Award Ownership Certificate then we will release the diplomat with your parcel box and also gives you every back up till the money arrives your doorstep.

Also note that we are doing this to make sure that any huge amount of money like yours that enters United States is genieu, we regret any inconveniences this might have caused you.

Thanks for your understanding.

Yours Truly,
I.P.A REGION NO: 2
THANKS.DOCTOR DOUGLAS H. KING.
Committee of Police Societies, NYPD.
CC: Alhaji Ahmadu Giade.

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