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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: my ownbox <myownbox0001@att.net>
Reply-To: myownbox0001@freemail.hu
Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 02:43:19 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: RE: Scam compensation!!!





























































I am Mrs. Hamza Haruna the secretary to the new
chairman of ECONOMIC
FINANCIAL
CRIME COMMISSION (EFCC).

EFCC in
alliance with economic community of West African
states (ECOWAS)
with head Office here in
Nigeria.
I write to inform you that following a
meeting with the US
Embassy and Federal Republic of Nigeria,
Federal
Republic of Cote'dvoir and Federal Republic of Benin.The subject
of
discussion is why American citizens who executed
foreign
contracts/Inheritance/Lotteries are either paid part payment or not
paid
at all. There are complaints by the American citizens and
other
Western World that they have lost some amount of
money in pursuit of their
payments and
this gave rise to the US Government setting up a five man
committee to work
with the US Embassy here in Lagos, Nigeria.towards
the
eradication 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 track 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) and they are all in our
custody here in Lagos
Nigeria. We have been able to
recover so much money from these scam
artists. The United
Nation Anti-crime commission and the
United
State
Government (F.B.I) have Order the
money recovered from the Scammers to be
shared among 100 Lucky people around
the globe. This mail is been directed
to you because your email address was
found in one of the scam Artists
file and computer hard disk in our custody
here in Nigeria. You are
therefore be Compensated with $2,000,000.00
(TWO MILLION
Dollars Only) Remember
the scam artist always claims that they are
Barristers/Bank Officials Lottery
Agents who has money for transfer or
want you to be the next of kin of such
funds which do not exist.

Since your name appeared among the
beneficiaries who will receive a
compensation of $2,000.000.00  we have
arranged your payment through our
swift ATM card payment, Feel free to
contact Ms Tibor Williams the swift
card has been specially prepare. It
enable you withdraw your money in any
ATM machine in any part of the world,
but the maximum is Five Thousand
Dollars Only per day. So you are advice to
contact Mrs Tibor Williams
myownbox0001@freemail.hu   or
atmcardng09@hotmail.com
  she will proccess your
payment without any delay, we also advise you to
help us fight scammer in
the world by providing us with there informations,
the method they use to
scam you.

Best Regard
Mrs. Hamza
Haruna
Sec to the Chairman
EFCC


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