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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: "ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRIMES COMMISSION" <efccoffic@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 05:35:04 -1200
Subject: SCAMMED VICTIM/1 MILLION BENEFICIARY REF/PAYMENTS CODE:06654 1MILLION USD

ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRIMES COMMISSION/UNITED NATIONS 2008
COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS DIRECTOR

ATTN:

SCAMMED VICTIM/1 MILLION BENEFICIARY REF/PAYMENTS CODE:06654
1MILLION USD

This is to bring to your notice that I am delegated from the
Economic and financial Crimes commission(EFCC) to Central
bank Nigeria to pay 100 Nigerian 419 scam victims $1 Million
each, you are listed and approved for this payments as one
of the scammed victims,get back to as soon as possible for
the immediate payments of your $1 Million compensations
funds.

On this faithfull recomendations,I want you to know that
during the last UN meetings held at
Abuja,Nigeria,it was alarmed so much by the rest of the
world in the meetings on the lose of funds by variouse
foreigners to the scams artists operating in syndicates all
over the world today,in other to retain the good image of
the country,the president of the country is now paying 100
victims of this operators $1 Million USD each,Due to the
corrupt and inefficient banking systems in Nigeria,the
payments are to be paid by Central bank Nigeria as
corressponding paying bank under fundling assistance by the
National westminster bank london.

Based on the ongoing ECONOMIC REFORMS of the President of
the Federal Republic of Nigeria, which established the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to fight the
ugly monster of MONEY LAUNDRY and all types of Financial
Crimes and to bring these underground SYNDICATES to face the
law and conviction.

The PRESIDENCY of the Federal Republic Of Nigeria through
the Office of the Chairman, Economic And Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC) is therefore soliciting your assistance
and co-operation in this project fight to sanitizing our
country NIGERIA.

We at the EFCC are therefore passing this message across and
asking you and others to have confidence in EFCC and our
tested ability to fight Financial Crimes and to help in our
secret investigations for the recovery of BILLIONS OF
DOLLARS AND POUNDS looted out of the treasury of this
country by highly placed government officials and Top
Politicians and to recover the looted Funds from SCAM
SYNDICATES and subsequently return this Funds to the
owners/victims.

According to the number of applicants at hand,84
beneficiaries has been paid ,half of the victims are from
the United States,we still have more 20 left to be paid the
compensations of $1 Million each. Your particulars was
mentioned by one of the syndicates who was arrested in
Lagos Nigeria as one of thier victims of the operations,you
are hereby warned not to communicate or duplicate this
message to him for any reason what so ever,the US secret
service is already on trace of the criminal.

For more vital information,please visit HELP EFCC TO HELP
YOU WEBSITE:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_fee_fraud#Romance_angle

You can receive your compensations payments via any of the
both options you choose,DRAFT PAYMENTS, ATM CARD or WIRE
TRANSFERS,I shall feed you with further modalities as soon
as I hear from you.

Send acopy of your response to official email:
efccoffic@hotmail.com
Sign
DR mostapha Ibrahim
Commission General Secretary (EFCC)

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