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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. Ibrahim Yassa." <ertyghffdsxa@gmail.com>
Reply-To: ibrahimyassa@outlook.com
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 16:13:34 +0100
Subject: Compliments of the day!

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Mr. Ibrahim Yassa
Plot 14 Bp 1210 Islands
Tel: +234-7066-241-818.
E-mail: ibrahimyassa@outlook.com

Greetings!

I am Mr. Ibrahim Yassa, working in department of Fund Released Order.
A contractor executed a contract through Federal Ministry of Works &
Housing (FMWH) and the contract worth Ten Million Five Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars.

Meanwhile, his money has been approved for payment in my office
awaiting for me to give order for the final endorsement of the release
of his money into his account before he died with his family in
earthquake disaster that occurred in Bam, South eastern city of Iran.

I shall be presenting you to the ministry here as the beneficiary's
next of kin/business associate to this fund,as we have been
unsuccessful in locating any of his relatives, so that his total
contract sum of Ten Million Five Hundred Thousand United States
Dollars will be processed and paid to you and thereafter both of us
will share the money.

Immediately you accept to co-operate with me, I will send to you the
whole relevant information that is required of you to know concerning
the contract fund.

And for your information nobody from my ministry will know my
confidential contact to you and they will never know. It must remain
top secret between the two of us.

1. Your complete names/address,
2. Private phone numbers.
3. Your Identification ID

I will communicate my data to you as soon as I read from you.But both
of us need to bear in mind that 10% of this contract money will go
for Homeless while the both of us share the balance 90% in your
account,

Yours truly,

Mr. Ibrahim Yassa.

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