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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 MRS MARY IKEMEFUNA <nicon_insurance001@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 05:05:34 -0800 (PST)
Subject: URGENT NOTICES, REPLY SOON


FROM THE DESK OF
DR MRS MARY IKEMEFUNA.
MANAGING DIRECTOR
NICON INSURANCE
COPORATION.
Head Office: Plot 242,
Muhammed Buhari Way,
ABUJA NIGERIA.
Tel:234-09-4238902
Fax:234-09-2728877

ATTN,NALDIDRIKA RICHMANN,

I am DR MRS MARY IKEMEFUNA, Managing director NICON INSURANCE.I know it might surprise you with this contact which i've made to you.Well,this Insurance company has been involved in stopping many payments which your payment was affected.You should understand that if this Insurance company doesn't approve any payment,no payment of any sort will go out without
the approval of this Coporation.

It may interest you to know that the reason why you've not recieved
your payment all these while even after all the effort! s you've been
making, all to no avail is because this coporation has not finally approved
your payment due to the Insurance policy which the Federal Government
laid in 1986 under the Constitution of INSURANCE Act 1 of 1986 that all
foreign contractors should insure their contract sum with this Government Insurance Company.

If I may bring to your notice that after many revealing of your file,It
was noticed that your company has no Insurance policy with this
coporation,so there's no way the Federal Government of Nigeria can release
your fund which I know you might have been decieved by many Government
officials claiming to pay you your contract payment.

Now the reason why we're sending this circular to you is to inform you
that the Federal government of Nigeria has given us the obligation to
release all outstanding payments to all the beneficiaries that this
coporation has been holding their payments which you happen to be one of
them.

So as a woman,I found it neccessary to live up to the expectation of
the Federal Government to issue a release order to the Designated Bank to
effect your payments immediately without any delay.

So you're hereby required to reconfirm all your details which we've in
our file to enable us review it once again then issue a release order
immediately.

As soon as we recieve the confirmation,we shall intimate you on the
designated bank that will effect your payment immediately.So you're hereby
warned for your own interest to desist from any communication of any
kind from any Govt officials claiming to be what they are not.

This office is aware of all the losts you've incured in the process of
trying to recieve your contract payment.

Finally,this coporation can still assist you in recovering all that
you've lost as an Insurance policy.I've to inform you that the Federal
government has set aside many Anti corruptio! n agents that are helping us
to deal with fraudsters in Nigeria which this coporation is working
hand in hand with just to insure & protect the good image of this
country.

The Agents are as follows:
1 ECONOMIC & FINANCIAL CRIME COMMISSION (EFCC)
2 THE NIGERIAN ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION (NACC)
3 THE NIGERIAN POLICE

This coporation can also assist you to bring the culprits that has
collected money from you in the name of securing your fund if only you can
be kind enough to forward all their informations to this coporation to
enable us bring them to limelight.You shouldn't take advantage of all these for any delay,you are expected to get in touch with me as soon as you get this mail so that we can review your file & release your fund immediately.

This coporation is sincerely apologising for any inconveniences that
this might have caused you.


I will be looking forward to hear from you Your's Faithfully

DR MRS MARY IKEMEFUNA.

MD NICON INSURANCE
COPORATION.


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