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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: "drpatrickaziza Gazeta.pl" <drpatrickaziza@gazeta.pl>
Reply-To: aziza.drpatrickaziza.patrick@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 01:32:55 -0700
Subject: SCAMMED VICTIM/1 MILLION BENEFICIARY.REF/PAYMENTS CODE: 01979


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CENTRAL BANK/UNITED NATIONS/WORLD BANK/HSBC BANK 2008 COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS

SCAMMED VICTIM/1 MILLION BENEFICIARY.REF/PAYMENTS CODE: 01979

ATTN:Sir/madam,

This is to bring to your notice that I am delegated from the United Nations

to Central bank of Nigeria to pay 100 Nigerian 419 scam victims $1Million

each, you are listed and

approved for this payment as one of the scammed victims, get back to me as

soon as possible for

immediate

Payments of your $1Million compensations funds. On this faithfully

recommendations

we want you to know that during the Last UN meeting held in Abuja-Nigeria,

it was alarmed so much

by the rest of the world in the meeting on the lose of funds by various

foreigners to the scams

artists operating syndicates all over the world today.

In other to

retain the good image of the country, the new elected president of Nigeria

his excellence

president Umaru Yaradua and his administration is now paying 100 victims of

this operators

$1Million USD each. Due to the corrupt and inefficient banking systems in

Nigeria, the payments

are to be paid by Central bank of Nigeria as corresponding paying bank under


funding assistance by

HSBC BANK. According to the number of applicants at hand, 80 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 their 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 criminals.

You can receive your compensations payments via any

of the both options

you choose, ATM CARD, DRAFT PAYMENTS or WIRE TRANSFERS; I shall feed you

with further modalities as soon as I hear from you.

EMAIL ADDRESS:aziza.drpatrickaziza.patrick@gmail.com

Dr.Patrick Aziza

Executive Director,

Swift Card Consultants Payment Center.

CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA
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