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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: "Mrs Farida Waziri." (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mbasin29@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 00:30:12 +0100
Subject: Re: Transfer of your Fund US$5.5M From EFCC

Economic and Financial Crime Commission
112 Avenues, Sure Road Lagos/Nigeria
EFCC Executive Chairman

Good day,

I hereby officially notify you about the present arrangement which I had in my office, due to the fact that I have no avenue to contact you ever since the organization has mapped out the sum of US$5.5m to be sent to you. The amount was assigned for compensation through Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and Economic Community Of West African
States (ECOWAS) in respect of victims who lost there money in one way or the other. Your email address was assigned among the people to be compensated.

Upon the receipt of this mail you are advised to send the following information as soon as possible for the processing of the fund to you so you absolutely have nothing to worry about.

Contact the Remittance department with the following information.

1) YOUR FULL NAME.
2) RESIDENTIAL RECEIVING ADDRESS
3) YOUR TELEPHONE NUMBER.
4) YOUR PROFESSION.
5) YOUR AGE.

Kindly forward the information above to

Contact Person: Mr. Mohamed Faye.
Email: mohamedfaye@ciudad.com.ar

Yours faithfully,
EFCC Executive Chairman,
Mrs Farida Waziri.

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