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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: "Mr Mark Louis" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <johnhill1000000@yahoo.co.jp>
Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 19:18:15 -0700
Subject: YOUR COMPENSATION PAYMENT

OFFICE OF THE FINANCIAL AUDITORS
INTERNATIONAL CREDIT SETTLEMENT DEPT
LONDON UK

Attention: Beneficiary

This is to officially inform you that we have verified your payment file and we discovered that you have not
received your contract/inheritance fund from Nigeria due to the Scam going on in Africa, We also found out
that you have not receive any payment since the American Government and Nigeria Government has set a
side Eight Hundred Billion United State Dollars (US$800,000,000.000.00) only from the Ten Billion Dollars
collected from fraudsters with the help of the Economic Financial Crime Commissions both in London and
Nigeria.

These include cash and frozen assess to compensate those who have been attempted or victims of fraud by
some imposters/fraudsters in Nigeria, London and other part of the country. Hence we have decided to
bring a solution to your problem by arranging your payment through an accredited bank in Nigeria.
This is the latest instruction by the new President GOODLUCK JONATHAN (GCFR) Federal Republic of
Nigeria and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in conjunction with US Government.

1. YOUR FULL NAME AND ADDRESS
2. DIRECT PHONE/FAX NUMBER
3. YOUR AGE AND NATIONALITY
4. OCCUPATION

For your information you have to stop any further communication with any other person(s) or office(s) in
respect of transferring your fund, this is to avoid any hitches in finalizing your payment. You are advised to
contact the below office of the Financial Auditor International Credit Settlement Dept, Nigeria with the
above information as soon as you receive this important message for more direction on this mater.

Contact Person: Mr. John Hill
Email: johnhill1000000@yahoo.co.jp

Note that because of impostors, we hereby issued you our code of conduct, which
is (445) so you have to indicate this code when contacting the Mr. John Hill

Regards,
Mr. Mark Louis
Secretary

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