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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: "office"<umuawa1@myway.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 08:59:56 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Compensation For Your Past Effort In Assisting Me.


Compensation For Your Past Effort In Assisting Me. Sorry it was due to my tight schedules I could not contact you,earlierbefore now. I am very happy to inform you about my success in gettingthat fund under the cooperation of a new partner from India.Presently I'm in New Delhi with the partner for some projects withthe money. Meanwhile,I did not forget your past efforts and attemptsto assist me in that process despite that it failed us at thattime.Now, I want you to contact my secretary on the information bellow NAME;MR. JUSTIN MICHAELS EMAIL; (ofice102_payment@myway.com) ask him to send you the total sum of (850,000.00)Eight hundred andfifty thousand pounds in A CASHIER'S CHEQUE, which I kept for yourcompensation for all the past efforts and attempts to assist me inthis matter.I appreciated your efforts at that time very much,So feelfree and get in touch with my secretary MR. JUSTIN MICHAELS and instruct him where to send the amount to you.Please do let me know
immediately you contact him so that we can share the joy after all the suffernessat that time. In the moment,I am very busy here because of theprojects which I and the new partner are having at hand. Thanks Dr. Ben Nnacheta.

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