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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." (may be fake)
Reply-To: <fraudunitdept@mail.kz>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:58:37 -0400
Subject: SCAM VICTIMS ....Fraud Alert / Notification !!!.. READ THIS EMAIL AND RESPOND IMMEDIATELY..

Attn: Beneficiary,
I am Mrs. Waziri Farida the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission. After proper investigations, we discovered that your impending payment that have been withheld by imposters, claiming to be who they are not, But with the Help of FBI and with the Local Police here in Africa we have been able to trace them.
Investigations revealed that you have spent a lot of your personal earned money just to conclude the successful transfer of your funds to your nominated bank account by obtaining transfer documents as requested by the impostors, costing you a lot of money but to no avail.
We also advise that you stop further communications you are having with all these impostors and forward any correspondence/proposal you receive from them to my email address: (fraudunitdept@mail.kz ) in other for the EFCC to bring justice to them still at large.
The EFCC has given authority to the International Monetary Funds (IMF) to assist the EFCC UNIT and all the organizations involved.
With the help of some of the best Internet investigators attached to the EFCC , we traced your information from the Internet as one of the beneficiaries of this Inheritance Funds.
I am pleased to inform you that a meeting was held as regards the best way to carry out with the compensation exercise for transparency and most especially to avoid re-occurrence of the delay in transferring your funds and the high cost of procuring transfer documents and came to a final conclusion as all head of organizations involved was duly represented.
Your Funds worth $1, 500,000.00USD (One Million Five Hundred thousand United States Dollars) Only. It was approved to be issued to you as a Valid International ATM MASTER CARD and It is going to be sent to you Via Courier delivery Company in order to spare you from Traveling expenses.
Reconfirm your delivery information as stated below:
FULL NAME:
DELIVERY ADDRESS:
OCCUPATION:
AGE:
CELLPHONE NUMBER:
We also advise that you stop further communications with these impostors and forward any correspondence/proposal you receive from them to us in other for the EFCC to bring justice to them still at large.
Mrs. Farida Waziri
For: Mrs. Farida Waziri
EFCC CHAIRMAN
 

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