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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: Chris Ngoma <chrisngoma06@gmail.com>
Reply-To: chrisnngoma@e1.ru
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 02:39:31 -1200
Subject: URGENT

Dear Sir,

After today's meeting with representative of West African states and
members of IMF, aim at verifying and to settle all debt owe by some countries
in Africa to foreigner, your name is among the list giving to us to
pay and we have
verify your payment and certified your payment to be release through
bank to bank,

Reconfirm the following to enable us be sure we are dealing with the
rightful owner to avoid error.

1- FULL NAME AND ADDRESS
2-PHONE AND FAX
3-AMOUNT EXPECTING

On receipt of the above information's transfer will take place
immediately.

Best Regard,

Chris Ngoma

For==

Nelson Edward
(Director Foreign Operation)
IPCC
International Payment Clearance Commission
3 Whitehall Court London SW1A 2EL United Kingdom
Tel: + +447035909165 Ext.:316 Fax: +447092985869
E-mail: ipcc@anpa.de nelsonedward@e1.ru

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International Payment clearance Commission or a third party. If you
are not the intended recipient of this communication, please delete
this email.If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you
must not copy, disclose, modify, distribute this communication without
the permission of International Payment clearance Commission. Any
views expressed in the communication are those of the individual
sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the
views of
International Payment clearance Commission. Except as required at law,
International Payment clearance Commission does not represent, warrant
and/or guarantee that the integrity of this communication has been
maintained or that the communication is free of errors, virus,
interception or interference.

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