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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: FINANCIAL AUDITORS INTERNATIONAL CREDIT SETTLEMENT DEPT
<security_firm5@hotmail.co.uk>
Reply-To: <wordpaymentoffice@ok.kz>
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 14:51:02 +0000
Subject: YOUR COMPENSATION PAYMENT



YOUR COMPENSATION PAYMENT
OF THE FINANCIAL AUDITORSINTERNATIONAL CREDIT SETTLEMENT DEPTLONDONAttention: Beneficiary,This is to officially inform you that we have verified your payment file which worth about Ten Million United States Dollars (US$10,000,000.00) only.We also found out that you have not receive any payment since the British Government has set aside Eight Hundred Million United State Dollars (US$800,000,000.00) only from the One Billion Dollars collected from fraudsters with the help of the Economic Financial Crime Commissions both in London and Nigeria. These include cash and frozen assess to compensate those who have been attempted or victims of fraud by some imposters/fraudsters in Nigeria, London and other part of the country.Hence we have decided to bring a solution to your problem by arranging your payment through an accredited bank in USA. This is the latest instruction by the President Chief Umaru Musa Yar' Adua (GCFR) Federal Republic of Nigeria and British Prime Minister Tony Blair in Conjuction with US government.Please confirm if you will like to receive the fund (US$10,Million) by sending us the below information and how you wish to receive your fund.For your information you have to stop any further communication with any other person(s) or office(s) in respect of transferring your fund, this is to avoid any hitches in finalizing your payment. You are advised to contact the below office of the Financial Auditor International Credit Settlement Dept. London with the above information as soon as you receive this important message for more direction on thisContact Person: Richard HiltonEmail: wordpaymentoffice@ok.kz
Note that because of impostors, we hereby issued you our code of conduct, which is (445) so you have to indicate this code when contacting the Richard Hilton.Regards,Mr. Jami ChuckSecretary
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