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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: "Mrs, Haneefa Abdel" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <jokkafor44@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2018 18:23:06 +0100
Subject: Re: Your Payment Compensation( 01/22/2018) .

Good News!
 
I' m happy to inform you about my success in getting those funds transferred to a foreign account under the cooperation of a new partner from Brazil . Presently I'm in São Paulo, Brazil, for an investment projects with my own share of the total funds .Meanwhile, I did not forget your past efforts and attempts to assist/help me in transferring those funds abroad despite that it failed us due to some challenges .Now you will need to contact a friend of mine in Nigeria Rev. Father John Okafor whom used to be a Good brother to me when i visited Nigeria last summer, his name is Mr. John Okafor and his email address is as follows : ( jokkafor44@yahoo.com )
 
Contact: Rev John Okafor
Tel: +234-9034737395
 
E-Mail: jokkafor44@yahoo.com
Make Sure you provide him with the following information below:
 
1) Your Full Name:
2) Your Phone number:
3) Home Address
4) Profession/Occupation:
5) Preferred Payment Method (Check /ATM or Bank transfer):
6) Copy of your Passport or Driving license
 
Ask him to send you a certified bank draft of US $2,000,000.00 which I prepared and kept for your compensation for all the past efforts and attempts to assist me in this matter. I appreciate your efforts at that time and do feel free and get in touched with Mr. John Okafor and instruct him where/how to send you the money.Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share our joy after all the sufferings at that time. In the moment, I am very busy here because of the investment projects which me and my newly found partner are having at hand, finally, remember that I had forwarded instruction to Mr. John Okafor in your behalf to release that money once you get in contact with him.Therefore feel free to get in touch with him and he will send the amount to you without delay. Take care and bye for now.
 
Yours truly
Mrs, Haneefa Abdel

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