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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 CRIMES COMMISSION <efcc.offic@gmail.com>
Reply-To: efcc.offc@zbavitu.net
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:51:51 +0200
Subject: Your Payment Notification!







FROM MRS FARIDA MZAMBER WAZIRI (AIG RTD)
ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRIMES COMMISSION
NIGERIA INVESTIGATION BUREAU
15A AWOLOWO ROAD,
IKOYI LAGOS NIGERIA.
Motto: No Body is Above the LAW

ATTENTION:

Your information was found in the Central monitoring system among the list of
unpaid contractors for the Beginning of this year, Your name appeared
among the
beneficiaries who will receive a part-payment of $5,000.000.00 for
your unpaid
contract payment for end of the year, Your contract payment have already been
deposited with the bank for immediate transfer to your bank account as soon as
we received your response.For your information, We where about to contact you
regarding your contract payment but unfortunately we received an Email from a
Lady called, Mrs Carol Cage, she called us this morning with this telephone
number: +19092751399, Informing us that you died three days ago, She said that
we should instruct her on how to claim your money as she is your next of kin,
Mrs Carol Cage, home Address: Water town, WI 53094,USA. and also she provided
this bank details for the transfer.

Bank Name:Wells Fargo
Account Name:Mrs Carol Cage
Account number: 2043488572
Routing number: 122105278

She stated that she is your next of kin beneficiary, and she also
told us that
you instructed her to claim your properties including your fund that
is in this
office in case you are not there to be found on earth.She said that
you told her
that there is a transfer charge she will pay in other to receive your funds,
that we should give her the bank contact details so that she will contact the
bank for the transfer of your funds, She also said that we should instruct her
on what to do in order to received your funds as your next of kin. we are a
little bit confused that is why we have decided to contact you to
confirm if she
is your next of kin and if her claim of you being dead is true, Please let us
know if this is true or not because we are confused now about this
claim because
she requested that we should instruct her on what to do for the claim
of funds.

You will have to summit your information to this office as listed below
for further verification and confirmation:
Full Name:
Home address:
Telephone:
Sex:
Country:
Copy of ID. or any scanned identity to prove yourself.


Please try and get back to us with your information immediately you
receive and
confirm this message, because if you did not respond in the next 72 hours we
will proceed and instruct Mrs carol cage on what to do and give her the bank
contact information for her to contact the bank for the transfer of your funds
as she claim to be your next of kin.
I await your urgent response. Contact Email:efcc.offc@zbavitu.net

Thanks for your co-operation.
Yours faithfully,
CHIEF MARS FARIDA MZAMBER WAZIRI, {Executive Chairman}
Economic & Financial Crime Commission {EFCC}
Motto: No Body is Above the Law

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