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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: "Barr Tunde Ogunloye" <efccnigeria@138mail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 16:26:14 +0800
Subject: Scammed???????

FROM THE DESK OF Barr.
TUNDE OGUNLOYE
LEGAL PRACTITIONER
EFCC NIGERIA

VICTIM-FULLNAME,

This is to inform you that the economic crime and financial fraud of Nigeria instituted by the Obasanjo regime has taken note of your in involvement with scammers and you are by the notice, inform to officially make a complaint so that we can carry out legal actions on the cooperates.

In case you do not know, the Economic Fraud and Financial Crime (EFCC) is an organization that was instituted to help fight financial crime and frauds in Nigeria.

I hope to hear from you as your information will help us a lot in tracking down this cooperates.

Thanks

Sincerely

Barr. Tunde Ogunloye.

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