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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: "Dr. Joseph Chukwu." <pauljaja108@yahoo.it>
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 10:24:51 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: CONTACT MY SECRETARY FOR YOUR COMPENSATION.


Hello Dear Good Friend,
 
I am Dr. Joseph Chukwu. who contacted you before about transferring those funds, now i am very happy to inform you about my success in getting that fund transferred,
 
which you try allot but later you started having biased mind, I want to let you know that its good to do good, I’m in China now with my own share of the total fund.
 
Now Kindly contact my secretary on the information ;Name Mr Austine John.Phone:+22998423928; Email:(mr.austinjohn1@globomail.com ) in Cotonou, Benin Republic. Ask him to send you the total sum of ($1.2m) dollars in ATM CARD, which I kept for your compensation.
 
Kindly reconfirm to him the following below information;
 Your full name_
Your address___
Your country__
Your age___
Your occupation___
Your Phone number__
 
Note that if you did not send him the above information complete he will not release the ATM CARD to you because he has to be sure
that it is you. Ask him to send you your ATM CARD.
 
Thanks,
Dr. Joseph Chucks.



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