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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: Mr Francis Williams <hr@mail.yamoffice.yam.com>
Reply-To: <mrfranics.williams14@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 08:46:46 +0200
Subject: From Mr Francis Williams Chief Director Of Foreign Compensation.

Greeting To You.
 
I am Mr Francis Williams. I am a new worker in the Compensation Head Office here in Nigeria,I work as their Director of foreign compensation file keeper. Well as i was going through all the files in the office this morning,i came accross your file which i took time to go through it. I found out that on your file it was written pending with a red pen.
 
Actually the meaning of the red pen on your file means cancellation of your fund since you refuse to claim or collect your fund. I have being trying to reach you through the cell phone number on your file but it was not reachable so i decided to contact you on the email i saw on the top of the file to see if i can reach you on claiming back your fund.
 
I want you to know that this is last chance you will be given to claim back your fund otherwise you will finally loss your fund and all pending files will be put into the recycle bin. For the collection of your fund, all you needed to do is to contact me back Via email or cell my Phone number to let me know you are very much interested in receiving back your fund.
 
Note: Your compensated fund worth $850,000.00 US Dollars as been programmed on an ATM MASTER CARD, so rightnow you are to receive your fund Via ATM MASTER CARD which you can make withdraw of $10,000 us Dollars on any ATM Machine in your location everyday/perday.
 
Below is my contact details in which you are been advise by me to contact, that is if you are really interested to get your ATM MASTER CARD deliverd to you.
 
Contact Person: Mr Francis Williams
( Director Of Foreign Compensation)
E-mail: (mrfranics.williams14@hotmail.com)
Cell Phone: ( +2348133027961 )
 
 
Please you are hereby advised to reconfirm to me with your personal information below and as soon as you do that then i will advise you on what you are to do before your ATM CARD will finally get deliverd to you at your home address in your country where you come from.
 
Full Name..............
Full Address..............
Phone Number...............
Sex..........
Country..............
Occupation.........
Age.......
 
 
 
Note: You are to stop every deal you have with anyone on the net claiming to have your ATM CARD which they do not have and by so soing you will be ask by them to pay some kind of fee which if you should send down the fee to them then you will never get one dime from them, So with all due respect i advise you to get back to me as soon as possible via email so that i can tell you the possible way for you to get your ATM CARD from the Compensation Head Office Nigeria without any delay.
 
Thanks for your Co-operation.
 
Mr Francis Williams
Chief Director Of Foreign Compensation.
 

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