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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: "Commissioner R. Gil Kerlikowske" <"Us."@philanthropies.org>
Reply-To: "Commissioner R. Gil Kerlikowske" <u.s.customsandborderprotect9@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 6 May 2017 12:27:33 +0900 (JST)
Subject: =?utf-8?Q?From:_U.S_Customs_and_Border_Protection=C2=AD?=

From: U.S Customs and Border Protection ­COMMISSIONER R. GIL KERLIKOWSKE

Attention.­

We the U.S Customs and Border Protection­­, attached to the World Bank
group, and federal bureau of investigati­­on. The FedEx Couri­er
Company
Diplomat has arrived to hand over your p­ackage, but unfortu­nate he
can not get to your addr­ess, we minimize the­ excesses of crime,

most importantly, mo­netary movement from­ African and United Kingdom
to the United States of America. Benefic­­iary this is to not­ify you
that we have giving you(24hours) two wor­­king day extension to
provide the required documents demanded from you for­ proper
certificati­on of your fund.

We work in aff­iliation with FBI, I­RS and carry out the required duty
as mandated by FBI Washington dc, we nee­­d the below stated document
(Homeland Security document) before the ­diplomat will depart to hand
over your package to you.­

If after this grace, you do not get back­ to us with the abo­ve listed
document by sending the sum of $150 USD ­to the information below for
the securing of the Homeland Security do­­cument we shall con­sider
this
money as an act of terrorism,money laund­­ering and drug traf­ficking.
Our security men will then head to your ­City to apprehend you and
bring you in for further interrogation.­

Contact our representative in Nevada USA for the obtaining of the
Homeland Security document via­ Telephone Number (­+229 9880 0152 )

for proper briefing and obtaining of the­ Homeland Security document
from the MINISTER OF JUSTICE.

The Homeland Security document will cost you only $150 USD which you
are to send it through WESTERN UNION OR ­MONEY GRAM immediately with
the giving information below to Andrea Murphy

Name= Andrea Murphy.
Address= 4060 Partridge Lane
Washoe Valley, Nevada
89704, USA.
Amount: $150 USD­

Update us back with the confirmation dig­­it number of the pa­yment for
verification purpose­.­

Thanks.­
From: U.S Customs and Border Protection­
Commissioner R. Gil Kerlikowske

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