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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: "mail_58@terra.es" <mail_58@terra.es>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 09:33:42 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: RE:YOUR PAYMENT NOTIFICATION


RE:YOUR PAYMENT NOTIFICATION
From: Dr John Nwaeze
ZENITH BANK PLC

Attention:Beneficiary

This is to officially inform you that we have verified your contract / inheritance file presentlyon my desk, and I found out that you have notreceived your payment due to your lack of co-operation and not fulfilling the obligations giving to you in respect to your contract /inheritance payment.Secondly, you are hereby advised to stop dealing with some non-officials in the bank as this is anillegal act and will have to stop ifyou so wish to receive your payment immediately.After the board meeting held at our headquarters, we have resolved in finding a solution to your problem,and as you may know, we have arranged your payment through our SWIFT CARD PAYMENT CENTRE in Europe,America and Asia Pacific, which is the instructiongiven by our president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo(GCFR) Federal Republic of Nigeria. This card centre will send you an ATM CARD which you will use towithdraw your money in an ATM MACHINE in any part of
the world, but the maximum is ($20,000.00) TwentyThousand Us Dollars per day. So, if you like toreceive your fund this way, please do let us know by forwarding the below details to my direct email box:drjohnnwaeze4545@yahoo.ca

(1) Your Full Name
(2)Address where you want the payment centre to send
your ATM CARD.
(3)Phone And Fax Number
(4) Your Total Fund to be received.

Instead of loosing your fund, please indicate to theCard Centre the total sum you are expecting and foryour information you have stop any further communication with anybody or office. On this regards, do not hesitate to contact me for moredetails and direction, and also please do update mewith any new development.

Thanks for your co-operation.
Regards,
Dr John Nwaeze
ZENITH BANK PLC
Note: Because of impostors, we hereby issue you with our code of conduct, which is (805) so you have toindicate this code when contacting this CARD CENTRE





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