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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: infohague.icjconsultant@aol.co.uk
Reply-To: info-hague.icj@consultant.com
Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2011 20:57:19 +0100
Subject: get back





>From the International Court of Justice (ICJ)
Peace Palace, Carnegieplein 2 2517 KJ
The Hague, Netherlands
To the Beneficiary
30:09:11

Attn: Sir/Madam,
This is to officially inform you that your contract payment is ready for instant release to your designated bank account as ruled by the International Court of Justice today. The ruling was based on the recent capture and killing of the worlds most wanted terrorist Osama Bin Laded. It was this terror figure that has complicated your payment in the past due to in sufficient data to process your contract payment and issuance of authentic anti –terrorism financial clearance documents. All anti-terrorism financial documents provided by your paying banks were not sufficient enough to release your funds because of fears that the funds may have been linked to terrorism financing of Late Osama Bin Laden’s terrorist group “Al-Qaeda” but now and according to the Judgement of the International Court of Justice and certified by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) all funds long overdue are cleared for payment. This is why your payment has been complicated in the past and remained long overdue, facing several official bureaucracies which have dragged on for so many years.
Due to non-compliance of your paying bank to issue favourable anti-terrorist documents, your funds were placed in a secured bank vault facility and is ready to released to you in accordance with this recent happenings of the death of Osama Bin Laden. Your payment does not require any anti-terrorist document because from it has been nullified of any link to terrorism financing after the death of the most wanted terrorist Osama Bin Laden.
Find attached below the certified official irrevocable directives from the IMF institute’s director, Leslie Lipschitz and his affixed identification for your perusal. For further enquiries or additional clarification please reply to official email:info-hague.icj@consultant.com
Justice Has Been Served, Congratulations!!
Thank you and regards,
Simon Juzek
High Counsellor
I C J



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