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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: "GARRICK NELSON" <info@fotoanit.com>
Reply-To: <mrmilesderick@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2016 16:57:07 -0500
Subject: STOP CONTACTING THOSE PEOPLE.CONTACT GARRICK NELSON FOR YOUR COMPENSATION

STOP CONTACTING THOSE PEOPLE.CONTACT GARRICK NELSON FOR YOUR COMPENSATION
 
Good day
 
I am Mrs. Sandra O Jackson; I am a US citizen, 48 years Old. I reside here in New Braunfels Texas. My residential address is as follows.108 Crockett Court. Apt 303, New Braunfels Texas, United States, am thinking of relocating since I am now rich. I am one of those that took part in the Compensation in Nigeria many years ago and they refused to pay me, I had paid over $20,000 while in the US, trying to get my payment all to no avail.
 
So I decided to travel down to Nigeria with all my compensation documents, and I was directed to meet Mr.Miles Derick, who is the member of COMPENSATION AWARD COMMITTEE, and I contacted him and he explained everything to me. He said whoever is contacting us through emails are fake. He took me to the paying bank for the claim of my Compensation payment. Right now I am the most happiest woman on earth because I have received my compensation funds of $7,500,000.00 Moreover, Mr Micheal Jeff showed me the full information of those that are yet to receive their payments and I saw your name as one of the beneficiaries, and your email address, that is why I decided to email you to stop dealing with those people, they are not with your fund, they are only making money out of you. I will advise you to contact Mr.Miles Derick
 
Records show that you are among one of the individuals and organizations who are yet to receive their overdue payment from Overseas which includes those of Lottery, Compensation, Contract payment and Inheritance. Through our Fraud Monitoring Unit we have also noticed that for few months ago you have been transacting with some impostors and fraudsters who have been impersonating the likes of Mr. Tunde Suleiman of Chevron, Mr. John J. McCloy of World Bank, Mr. Ban Ki-moon of United Nations, President Muhammed Buhari of Federal republic of Nigeria, Barrack Obama of United States, Sir Win Bischoff of foreign exchange, Mr.Ibrahim Lamorde of EFCC, Kelvin Young of HSBC, Ben of FedEx, Dr. Usman Shams uddeen and some impostors claiming to be working with The Federal Bureau of Investigation etc.
 
The Cyber Crime Division of the FBI in conjunction with: THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA , Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and Metropolitan Police [Scotland Yard] England gathered information from the Internet Crime Complaint Center (ICCC) formerly known as the Internet Fraud Complaint Center (IFCC) of how some people have lost outrageous sums of money to these impostors. As a result of this we hereby advise you to stop communication with any one not referred to you by us as we have investigated these bodies and have found out that they were impostors and have hence directed beneficiaries to rightful claim centers
 
You have to contact him directly on this information below.
 
JOAKIN COMPENSATION HOUSE
 
Name: MR MILES
 
Email:mrmilesderick@yahoo.com
 
Phone: +234-806-934-9309

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