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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.WILLIAMS JOE" <alessandro.rita83@alice.it>
Reply-To: revpastorjacobatimothy@yahoo.fr
Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 12:56:42 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: attn

Acknowledgement has been given to the receipt of your email transmission Sequel
to your request I have your "Bank Draft" containing US$1.8Million United States
dollars on my table right now and it can’t be able to send to you in your
destination Bank account because the money is not in cash is in Cheque with

me. I am going to send it to you through the means of courier services, and to
avoid much delaying you have to send your postal address where delivery company
will use to send your package, meanwhile you are required to chose one among
the listed four
Please do kindly call me with my office phone number +2296 8173 051 or you can
quickly send me an email with the payment details as soon as you pick up your
choice among the courier Companies and send their fee ok.

Rev. Pastor Jacob A. Timothy
General Manager of Federation
Tel +2296 8173 051
E-mail(:revpastorjacobatimothy@yahoo.fr)
RevPastorJacob ATimothy
REVPASTORJACOBATIMOTHY

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