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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: EFCC NIGERIA <hr@mail.yamoffice.yam.com>
Reply-To: <drpaulrogers47@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 07:11:05 -0700
Subject: EFCC Recovery Fund (ESTC)

E-mail Security Text Code (ESTC)-> EFCC/k009/11/EUS/GM0081/EE-11



ATTN. Beneficiary,


I am Mrs. Farida Waziri the chairman of ECONOMIC & FINANCIAL CRIME COMMISSION (EFCC) NIGERIA. EFCC in alliance with economic community of West African states (ECOWAS) with head Office here in Nigeria. We have been working towards the eradication of fraudsters and scam Artists in Western part of Africa With the help of United States Government and the United Nations.

We have been able to track down so many of this scam artist in various parts of west African countries which includes (NIGERIA, REPUBLIC OF BENIN, TOGO, GHANA CAMEROUN AND SENEGAL) and they are all in our custody here in Lagos Nigeria.

However after our wide network intelligent OPERATION TRACKDOWN INTERNET THEFT (OTIT), this email is being directed to you because after our spontaneous raid on the hoodlums at their hide-outs, your email address was found in one of the scam Artists file and computer hard disk, flash drive and phone numbers of victim on phones that are in our custody here in Nigeria and with the information gathered from this Scam artist and the hardware, it has now come to my notice that some group of hoodlums posing as processing officer for EFCC on an online banking transfer as regards earlier scheduled, and parading with online banks that are not listed in EFCC Approved bank for beneficiary endorsement payment, the EFCC and its alliance: ECOWAS, UN, US Governments had series of deliberation on the said set back and how to have it eradicated.

I have severally contacted your email and 62 others that are yet to receive their Compensation endorsed payment of $1,000,000.00 Million US Dollars, payable and cashable in any country, international banks, business bank in the world. So after waiting and no response was heard from you , I directly deposited and also paid for the delivery fee of your$1,000,000.00 Million US Dollars, as consignment box to FEDERAL INLAND SECURITY COMPANY.

I will want you to contact the FEDERAL INLAND SECURITY COMPANY to know when they will be delivering your consignment. I have paid for the delivery charges and also the insurance fee, the only fee you will have to pay them is the monthly demurrage fee which they would pay the security department that are guarding your consignment since the date of deposit. But if you will be very fast in contacting them, you will be charged only one month demurrage fee which will cost only $368 USD. So i urge you to feel free, contact them as soon as you receive this email.

CONTACT: Mr. Paul A. Rogers MANAGER, FEDERAL INLAND SECURITY COMPANY (CC: EFCC FOREIGN OPERATIONS DEPT).

E-mail: efcc.ng2004@att.net

Try to contact him as soon as possible to avoid increase in demurrage fee. I gave them your delivery address but you have to reconfirm it to them again to avoid any mistakes in the delivery of your fund.

Reconfirm below information to the company.

1)YOUR FULL NAME.
2)YOUR ADDRESS.
3)YOUR OCCUPATION.
4)YOUR NATIONALITY
5)YOUR COUNTRY.
6)YOUR IDENTITY CARD/PASSPORT.
7)YOUR DIRECT TELEPHONE NUMBER


Note: You are to contact the FEDERAL INLAND SECURITY COMPANY MANAGER via this email:-- ( efcc.ng2004@att.net ) Finally indicate the ESTC: EFCC/k009/11/EUS/GM0081/EE-11 when contacting them, it will identify that you are the owner of the $1.000.000.00 consignment trunk box deposited in the company.

I would strongly want you to ignore any message and get back to me or your local authority if the message does not have the above exact text code. This code was innovated by the EFCC background intelligence powered by INTERPOL, so that any message or email coming from anyone from Nigeria would have the text code intact for security positions. Also your email have been Encrypted by the same intelligent so that hackers would not interfere in your process of payment endorsement. This move is was adjusted by the US Government to make sure it is safe to get your COMPENSATION FUND to you without complication.

Do let me know as soon as you receive your consignment and take a proper account of the content, and see that it contains$1.000.000.00

Regards,

Mrs Farida Waziri
Chairman Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
(EFCC) FOREIGN OPERATIONS DEPT
FCT ABUJA NIGERIA.
WEST AFRICA.





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This message is sponsored by the Rebranding Nigeria Project Team, in conjunction with the Federal Ministry Of Culture and Tourism, CRIME WATCH NIGERIA TV.

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