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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: "NANCY SEGGERMAN" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <davidtgardlik@i12.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:50:23 -0800
Subject: THE TRUTH ABOUT YOUR OUTSTANDING INHERITANCE PAYMENT

Hello,

I am Mrs. Nancy Seggerman; I am a US citizen, 48 years Old. I reside here in Cripple Creek Colorado 80813. United States of America, I am thinking of relocating since I am now rich. I am one of those that have been trying to make claim of my inheritance in Nigeria for many years, I had paid over $20,000 trying to get my payment all to no avail.

So I decided to travel down to Nigeria with all my documents, And I was directed to meet Mrs Waziri farida who is the head of the EFCC an anti fraud agency in Nigeria and I contacted her and she explained everything to me. She said whoever is contacting us through emails are fake and she assigned an officer of the EFCC by name Dr David Gardlik who took me to the
paying bank for the claim of my payment. Right now I am the happiest woman on earth because I have received my inheritance claim of $20,000,000.00 Moreover during one of my meetings with Dr David Gardlik I came across some files that had the full information of those that
are yet to receive their payments and I saw your name as one of the beneficiaries, and your email address, that is why I decided to email you to stop dealing with those people, they are not with your fund, they are only making money out of you.

I will advise you to contact Mr. David Gardlik, you have to contact him directly on this information below.

Name: Mr. David Gardlik
Email:antifraudunit@inMail24.com
davidtgardlik@i12.com
Phone: +234-702-7950399
New Africa House (12th Floor), 31 Marina, Lagos Island


You really have to stop dealing with those people that are contacting you and telling you that your fund is with them, it is not in anyway with them, they are only taking advantage of you and they will dry you up until you have nothing.

The only money I paid after I met Mr. David Gardlik was just $370 for the paper works, take note of that. Once again stop contacting those people, I will advise you to contact Mr.David Gardlik so that he can help you to deliver your fund instead of dealing with those liars that will be turning you around asking for different kind of money to complete your
transaction.

Thank You and Be Blessed.

Mrs. Nancy Seggerman.
nseggerman@gmail.com
Cripple Creek
Colorado 80813
United States of America

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