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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: "Howard George (LLM)" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <revsistergracesimon@ozu.es>
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:50:39 -0700
Subject: Dear Scam Victim

Attn: Dear  Scam  Victim
 
INTERCONTINENTAL BANK COMPENSATION UNIT, IN AFFILIATION WITH THE UNITED NATIONS ORGANIZATION.
 
Send a copy of your response to the bank official email  :   atm-dept@icb-bank.org or revsistergracesimon@ozu.es         
CONTACT;REV SISTER GRACE SIMON 
This email is to all the people that have been scammed in any part of the world, the UNITED NATIONS has agreed to compensate all short listed victims with the sum of US$1,500,000.00(ONE MILLION FIVE  HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS ONLY) each, This includes every foreign contractors & supposed next of kin who has an uncompleted fund transfer that have not yet received their payments together with people that has an unfinished transaction or international businesses that failed due to one Government policy or the other etc.
It may interest you to note that your name and email address was in the list submitted by our Monitoring Team of Economic and Financial Crime Commission observers as this has been fully agreed upon and signed.
 
You are advised to contact Rev SISTER GRACE SIMON of INTERCONTINENTAL BANK NIGERIA PLC, on her Official E-mail Address: atm-dept@icb-bank.org or revsistergracesimon@ozu.es   as she is our representative in Nigeria, contact her  immediately for your
Hence you are urgently required to send them immediately your full Name and telephone number/your correct mailing address where you want them to send the ATM CARD to you. Finally you should endeavor to notify us as soon as you take delivery of your programmed ATM card from the IC Bank to enable us updates our records. Good luck and kind Regards,
 
Barr. Howard George.
Chief Supervisor UN. Payment Compensation programmed center
Making the world a better place
 
 

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