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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:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "million united state dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "hundred thousand united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- ",000,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "00,000.00" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
- "economic financial crime commission" (This name is often mentioned in money recovery scams (re-scam): the real EFCC does not contact victims to offer to get their money back because that is near impossible. )
- "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
- +2348093572990 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "International Credit Dept" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <zbank134@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 01:23:05 -0700
Subject: Office Of The Financial Auditors,International Credit Dept,G

Office Of The Financial Auditors,International Credit Dept,
Head Office No: 23 Avelelon Raod, Lagos-Nigeria.
Tel:- +234 809 357 2990

Attention Beneficairy

I am Dr.Robert Walter, This is to officially inform you that we have verified your payment file which worth about Ten Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars Only US$10.5Million We also found out that you have not receive any payment since the British Government has set aside Eight Hundred Million United State Dollars (US$800,000,000.00) from the One Billion Dollars collected from fraudsters with the help of the Economic Financial Crime Commissions both London and Nigeria These include cash and frozen assess to compensate those who have been attempted or victims of fraud by some imposters/fraudsters in Nigeria, London and other part of the country.Hence we have decided to bring a solution to your problem by arranging your payment through an accredited bank here in Nigeria This is the latest instruction by the New president and (GCFR) Federal
Republic of Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan and British Prime Minister in conjunction with US government.Please confirm if you wil
l like to receive the fund (US$10

1. Your Full Name And Address..............................
2. Direct Phone/Fax Number.................................
3. Your Age And Nationality................................
4. Occupation..............................................
5. Sex ........................................................
6. Company Name............................................
7. Your Bank Name..........Address.........................
8. Bank Account...........Account..........................

For your information you have to stop any further communication with any other person(s) or office(s) in respect of transferring your fund, this is to avoid any hitches in finalizing your payment.Note that because of impostors, we hereby
issued you our code of conduct, which is (445) so you have to indicate this code when contacting the

Regards
Dr.Robert Walter

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