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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: "John Marcinek" <pay.dept1@ymail.com>
Reply-To: sschell012@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2015 03:51:13 +0600
Subject: Attention: Honorable Beneficiary,

Attention: Honorable Beneficiary,

The International Monetary Funds, IMF has authorized my Office to settle
all the Foreign Debts owed by the Benin Republic Government.The IMF
Foreign Policy and Currency Regulation offered loan of $23 billion to
Benin Republic Government based on the Agreement $2 billion was mapped out
for the Foreign Debts and your name was among those Beneficiaries to be
paid through my Office.

Based on these all the money you have had spent in the course of getting
this money in the past must be included as no money will be lost.
Therefore, you are directed to state categorically the total amount you
had spent before and forward it to my Office now before the total payment
will be made on your behalf.

Your payment this time will be taken place immediately and under 72 Hours
the payment of $15m was approved on your behalf and will be transferred to
you immediately. You are requested to reply with your full information
such as:

Your Names
Your Address
Your Phone
Your personal

Contact
Susan Schell,Phone;+2348022352997 and email ( schells45@yahoo.com.sg )
Kindly reply now.

Yours,
John Marcinek
IMF COORDINATOR AFRICA
LAGOS / NIGERIA


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