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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: "MR TOM BEN" <force@gmail.com>
Reply-To: forceofficetax@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 10:41:11 +0300
Subject: TAX FORCE OFFICE .......CALL US NOW +23470-17828-135

Attention:

First of all,How is your great and wonderful families?Hope everyone is
fine?This maybe strange to you since i am

contacting you for the very first time!

Well i like to ask you some few questions before we proceed!

Why don't you think and ask yourself why you have not yet receive your
fund? Sit,think and ask yourself why you have

been sending your hard earn money to people on the internet?Hope you
understand what the internet is all about?The

internet is full of fraudsters and scammers!And those Fraudsters and
scammers will continue to scam you out of your

hard earn money if you don't stay away from them.

Well i have some peace of advice for you!And if you listen and work with
my advice,I assure you that you will

overcome this,and receive your fund.

(1)You will have to forward us all the contact of those people that you
have been sending your hard earn money to

Like their Names,Phone Numbers and Email Addresses so we can investigate
on them since we are in collaboration with

the EFCC,ICPC,FBI,INTERPOL and the CIA!

Please be advice that non of them should be left behind,we need all the
information's of those people including the

recent once.

(2)You will have to chose a code number of your choice and send it back to
us,and that code number will be the sign

of communications for the both of us,and anyone who call or send you an
email without the code number that you are

about to chose,you please disregards it for security reasons!

Finally on no account should you link or tell this to anyone on the
Internet apart from our office in other for them

not to penetrate or took advantage on your fund!

So if you can sincerely work with my advice you will find out that this
whole issues will be solve and your fund

will transfer to you!

SO NOW LETS GET DOWN TO BUSINESS............

Your fund is worth (TWO MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS)and it was Deposited
to us here in our office by the NIGERIAN

NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION (NNPC)

This money as been Deposited with us here for over 3 years,but we could
not contact you due to we find out on our

networking system that you have been dealing with so many scammers on the
internet.

Whether you like it or not the only fund you have is here in our office!

So here is the big questions,Do you really want to do this transaction
with us?

If yes kindly refill out the information's below and send it back to
us immediately!

YOUR FULL NAME :_____________

CONTACT ADDRESS:_____________

MOBILE PHONE:_____________

HOME PHONE:_____________

FAX:_____________

OCCUPATION:_____________

COUNTRY________________

MARITAL STATUS:_____________

AGE:_____________

NEXT OF KIN_____________

PASSPORT_____________

CODE NUMBER OF YOUR CHOICE_____________

Fill out the information's and get back to us in other to carry out this
transaction!

But if you know that you are not ready to do the transaction with us and
receive your fund,Don't even border to

contact us back!

You can as well call us with +23470-17828-135

We are waiting to read from you!
Regards,
Mr Tom Ben


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