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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: Mercy George <mg139900@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mercyg1@aol.com
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 20:25:26 +0700
Subject: Hi it's Mercy

Dearest,



You have to read this to amend your mistakes my dear, I am contacting you
because of the information on what I saw about your fund payment, this will
be of a great help to redeem you from all the difficulties you have been
experiencing in regards to your long over due payment due to excessive
demand for money from you by the non officials departments.



I am Mrs. Mercy George from Torrance, CA USA. I am one of those that are to
be compensated by Nigeria Government many years ago and they refused to pay
me, I hard spent over 60.000.00 US Dollars trying to get my payment and all
to no avail, not knowing I was dealing with the wrong people. One day, I
got an e-mail from a Man called ANDREW MORGAN from Oregon telling me to
stop dealing with people contacting me if any, and contact Mr. John David
The payment officer in Nigeria to receive my fund which I did by traveling
down to Nigeria, I was directed to meet the only authorized payment officer
in the country (Nigeria) which happened to be the same person, ANDREW
MORGAN told me about.



I tabled my problem to him, Behold he explained everything to me; he said
that whoever contacting us through emails for ATM Card, UPS, DHL and Casher
Check E.T.C are FAKE. After, He took me to the Bank for the claim of my
Compensation payment, and introduces to me the bank Attorney that assisted
me to get the needed documents which I signed and my money was released to
me. Right now I am the happiest woman on earth because I have received my
long over due compensation payment of $5.3million, Moreover Mr. David,
showed me the full information list of those that are yet to receive their
payments and I saw your email Address as one of the beneficiaries, that's
why I decided to email you to stop dealing with those criminals contacting
you, honestly they are not with your fund, they are only making money out
of you, I will advise you to stop any contact with them and contact the
authorized payment officer Mr. John David to claim your fund with the
following E-mail(david.john134@gmail.com) before it's too Late. The only
money I paid to receive my fund was $470 for the obtaining of my fund
permit Certificate NLP. I am a living testimony Praise master Jesus AMEN.



Yours Truthfully

Mrs. Mercy George.

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