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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 Crime Commission" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mssroseeona1@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 15:24:38 +0200
Subject: (EFCC)IMMEDIATE DUE PAYMENT FOR SCAM VICTIMS 2010!!

Economic And Financial
Crime Commission(EFCC)
15 Awolowo Ways Victoria
Island Lagos Nigeria
Dated: 05/03/2010
 
Attention: To whom it concern.
 
I am Mrs. Farida Waziri the chairperson to ECONOMICAL FINANCIAL CRIME COMMISSION (EFCC) in alliance with Economic community of West African states (ECOWAS) with head Office here in Nigeria. We have been working towards the eradication exercise of fraudsters and scam Artists in Western part of Africa. With the help of United States Government and the United Nations we have been able to tracked down so many of this scam artist in various parts of West African countries which includes (NIGERIA, REPUBLIC OF BENIN, TOGO, GHANA CAMEROUN AND SENEGAL LONDON) and they are all in our custody here in Lagos Nigeria.
 
We have also been able to recover some money from these scam artists. The United Nation Anti-crime commission and the United State Government has ordered that the money recovered from these Scammers should be shared among the list/names that we recovered from the data's file Computers Hard DISC that was also recovered from these imposters as we highly assumed that you must have been victimized by these imposters. This message is been directed to you because of the fact that your email address and other vital information was also founded in this Computer Hard DISC. Based on the direction of the Authorities you are been compensated with no much than One hundred and Fifty thousand United State ($150,000.00 USD) Dollars Only.
 
Based on the information we gathered from these Scammers, they had actually defrauded a lot of innocent Citizen off their hard earned currencies, as they claims Diplomat/Bank officials, Lottery Agents who has money to transfer or want you to pose as a the next of kin to a decease, which do not really exist. Since your name appeared among the 14 beneficiaries who are entitled of this offer, we have arranged your payment in cash or by means of Bank to Bank transfer system.
 
You are urge to stop all transaction which you have with the Governmental and Non-Governmental parasites, NGOs, Finance Companies, Banks, Security Companies and Courier companies which have been in contact with you of late, they have been instructed to back off from contacting you anymore. Your funds will be remitted to you through this organization once and for all, while you will have to contact the EFCC appointed person via the below stated details,
 
Contact person: Miss Rose E. Ona
Phone: +234 1 662-8386
Email: mssroseeona1@gmail.com
 
For record keeping purposes you must send us alert as soon the fund is confirmed into your Bank account.
 
Yours sincerely,
Mrs. Farida Mzamber Waziri
Executive/Chiarman(EFCC)

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