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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: "Dr.John K.Martin" <oofice14@tim.it>
Reply-To: financialconductauthorityamerica@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2017 01:13:31 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Attention to you the Beneficiary,

Financial Conduct Authority America
Our Ref: UN/FCA7-02U
From Desk Of Dr.John K.Martin
Director. E-mail: financialconductauthorityamer@gmail.com

Attention to you the Beneficiary,

We wish to congratulate and inform you that after thorough review of all
unclaimed Contract, Inheritance, Lottery funds, etc in conjunction with the
World Bank and the United Nations auditors report, your payment file was
forwarded to our office for review and immediate payment of your long delayed
funds starting with a first installment transfer of US$25,000,000 [Twenty five
Million Dollars] to your bank account. Other transfer will follow immediately
you confirm that this first transfer of $25,000,000 is already in your bank
account. Your transfer is shifted to America here for safety purposes so that
this Africa criminals and their Asia counterparts will not have access anymore
to take advantage of you! The total sum which we are to transfer to your bank
account is US$50,000 million Dollars but first installment transfer will be
$25,000,000 only.

The Audit report shows that you have been going through hard times by paying a
lot of money to dubious officials for the release of your funds. We therefore
advice that you stop further communication with any correspondence outside this
office. This first installment transfer of US$25,000,000 will be credited to
your submitted bank account within 6 working hours and telex confirmation
forwarded to you and your bankers for confirmation.

For further details and the immediate transfer of the US$25,000,000 to your
bank account, kindly reconfirm your personal information.

Once again Congratulations.
Yours faithfully,
Dr.John K.Martin
Financial Conduct Authority

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