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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: "secretary,house of compensation" <info@compensation.com>
Reply-To: <ubabank778@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 19:50:19 +0200
Subject: RESPOND TO YOUR COMPENSATION



AFRICA HOUSE OF COMPENSATION
NO.5,CHALLAGE STREET,
MARINA LAGOS


Dear beneficiary,we want to officially inform you of your
compensation of $5000,000.00.
Your email was found among the 25th emails compensated as the
internet reveales 2017 .

This compensation comes from the ASSOCIATION OF WORLD WIDE PRODUCING
COMPANIES[AWWPC],due
to your effort in buying companies products.Therefore, the
COMPENSATION HOUSE OF
AFRICA[C.H.A]was employed to handle the delivery of your compensation
of $5 Million USD with the assistance of
FEDERAL MINISTRY OF FINANCE.uBA bank of Africa is the choosing bank
where the money
is deposited.

A meeting held on Monday 06,nov. 2017,The purpose
of this meeting was for the way forward for safety delivery to the
beneficiaries.We arrived at
conclusion that this fund should be converted to ATM card by UBABANK
of AFRICA where the money is deposited .This ATM card has daily
withdraw limit of $10,000.00USD which is cash able at any bank in the world
Please contact Mr.FRANK Lil the UBAbank manager on;
[ubabank778@gmail.com]and Please reconfirm your details
to avoid any mistake during delivery of the ATM card to you.

NAME...........................
OCCUPATION.....................
AGE..................................
COUNTRY................................
PHONE NUMBER........................
Delivery address.......................
IDENTITY CARD.........................

NOTE: If you received this message in your SPAM/BULK folder that is
because of the restrictions implemented by your Internet Service
Provider we urge
you to treat it genuinely and kindly move it to your inbox.

Yours affectionate,
Secretary,
Africa house of compensation

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