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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: "SANUSI KAYODEN" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <sankay.fund@mail15.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2017 22:03:09 +0200
Subject: From U.S. Department of the Treasury 109.195.14.172

Attention:

Your credit payment file have been added and opened,We received an email from Mr Fred Atkinson today that you had an accident and died in the act..
Mr Fred Atkinson claim to be your lawyer and he is ready to claim your funds related to your compensation funds of $500,000.00 (five hundred thousand United State Dollars) that has been with us for three months now which you refuse to claim. he has also agreed to pay the fund release charges of US$460.

So we write to confirm if you are DEAD OR ALIVE, if you fail to reply back within 48hrs, We will assume that what Mr Fred Atkinson said about you is right so we have no other alternative than to believe that you are truly dead according to Mr Fred Atkinson .

After 48hrs of no response from you, We will start the transfer and the delivery of your funds to your next of kin account which he claim to be

IF YOU ARE STILL ALIVE, YOU ARE ADVICE TO GET INTOUCH WITH US BY A REPLY ON MAIL OR GIVE US A CALL AS FAST AS YOU CAN..my cell phone. +1 484-305-9864 Email.: sankay.fund@mail15.com

Take note that Mr Fred Atkinson has agreed to pay for THE RELEASE CHARGES, if you refuse to get
back to us, am afraid we shall give him the go ahead with the release chareges payment and then the fund transfer will be made to his Name and Account.

NOTE: He has drop is account details and his home address for delivery of the funds into his International
ATM card and he promise to make the neccessary payment.We are writing to confirm if all he said was true
because he want us to start the transfer ASAP.

You are to send a scan copy of your driver's licence or national ID for proper confirmation.Please ,get
back to us as soon as possible to know if we are to get Mr Fred Atkinson Arrested for trying to claim your
fund illegally.note that you have been given just 48hrs to get back to us .

fill the Information Below.
Name:
Country:
House Address:
Occupation:
Phone Number:

We await your swift response in regard to this news we received from Mr.peter anderson

U.S. Department of the Treasury
Sanusi Kayode.

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