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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: "Dr. John Aboh." (may be fake)
Reply-To: <johnaboh6@skymail.mn>
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 21:11:11 +0100
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS: $1 MILLION HAVE BEEN TRANSFERED TODAY..

Dear sir/madan,.
 
Congratulations on the sucessfull transfer we made today to your representative Mr.Robert walters from london.
His address is FLAT 8 RUGMERE,FERDINAND STREET,LONDON NW1 8HE. His Phone number is : +447011184645
 
We sucessfully transfered $1,000,000.00 from your $8,500,000.00 in our bank to his bank account in london today leaving you a balance of $7,500,000.00
Becouse he said that you are very sick and in a hospital bed and you seriouslly needed $1 million to pay your hospital bills at the moment and we told him
that he needed to pay the transfer charges for the $1,000,000.00 which he did and we sucessfully transferd to him $1 million to his account to help you in the bills.
Please acept our congratulations and we wish you a quick recorvery.
 
Please send to us your contact informations as follwos for the transfring of your balance of $7.5 million.
 
NAME :.........
ADDRESS :......
TELEPHONE NUMBER :......
OCCUPATION AND POSSITION :.....
 
For the balance of your fund $7.5 million contact us with below informations.
 
NAME: Mrs. Jane Margaret.
Email: jane.magrate@accountant.com
Telephone number: +234-703-795-0542
 
Thanks
 
OCEANIC BANK.
 
 
 
 

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