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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: ''FOREIGN UNIT'' MR PATRICK HOLT <test@scc2002.org.fj>
Reply-To: <patrickholt842@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 04:28:03 -0500
Subject: RE: YOUR PAYMENT IS AVAILABLE.

MR PATRICK HOLT
DIRECTOR OF INTERNATIONAL
MONETARY FUNDS DISCOVERY
CALIFORNIA , USA
OPENING HOURS: 08:00 to 16:00, MONDAY TO FRIDAY,

Email Verification Code: GUORYAKWU
File Number: 16162778A

Attention Valued Beneficiary


LONG OVERDUE PAYMENT RECENTLY DISCOVERED.


This Email might come to you as a surprise but i
crave your indulgence to please note that this is
not a phlising email! I am Mr. Patrick Holt, The
current International Funds Clearance Manager of
the United State Commission. The USC is an
organization that supports economic stability and
co operation with so much branches all over the
world. We are also empowered to overlook all
International and Local Transactions held pastly or
present involving huge sums of Money.Our aim and
objective is to ensure that Legal funds are
allocated to their respective columns.

Recently, i was appointed to be the West africa
regional Accounts officer to give reports to
the United states commission and the International funds
discovery unit and while i was busy going through
some files at the office i came accross a very
concrete file that was kept untreated though it was
binded and sealed! I was so interested in knowing
more about the file and why it was kept
untreated,so i read carefully and behold the
content was beyond my imagination. I came accross
your name and your email and the content of your
file which clearly indicates to me that you have an
Entitled payment owed to you.

This Winning came as a result of the First Quarter Email Ballot
system that was held 6 months ago over the Internet that extracted about
30,000 Email list and your Email Address was
selected among the 20 Beneficiaries to receive their rightful
payment. Luckly, Microsoft and Yahoo were contracted to carry out the
Email Balloting and luckly your Email address was among the first
batch

As i stated above, the status of the file shows
that the money was legally assigned to you but has
been going through some unlawful processes in
getting to you as the Legal payment Beneficiary.


Also note that once we have verified that you are
the rightful beneficiary of the funds in
question,your funds shall be paid to you from our
affiliate office in the U.S and we shall withdraw
any file or documents currently in West Africa. The
American Government has the power to investigate
and ensure proper release of payment through Bank
wire transfer or ATM,So be rest assured that once
our verification process is completed, you will be
receiving your funds.


On the Contrary, I also found an AGREEMENT
CERTIFICATE on your file which explains two
gentlemen named James white and Robert
Huntington from Ohio united state of America, who came to
claim this Funds on your behalf and the reason they gave
on the agreement to us is that you are the one Who Authorised
them to claim the funds on your Behalf, and also that you
are very sick so i hope my email meets you in Good
health because even though an Agreement was held by
you and the other party, we still have to gain a Final
approval from you since you are the sole
beneficiary to this Transaction.



If you would like to proceed with the arrangement
and release of this Transation,kindly re-confirm
the following information’s below to expedite the

process

(1) Your Full Name
(2) Full residential address
(3) Phone and Fax Number
(4) Occupation.
(5) Personal Identification. Driver’s license or
International Passport. (OPtional)
(7) Age
(8) Marital Status
(9) Sex


You may call me for further questions

Respectively
MR PATRICK HOLT

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