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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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Fraud email example:

From: Police International <internationalp45@yahoo.com.vn>
Reply-To: collins_morrison@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:41:44 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: INTERNATIONAL POLICE ASSOCIATION UNITED STATES SECTION ( I.P. A ).


                              
 
          INTERNATIONAL POLICE ASSOCIATION
UNITED STATES SECTION ( I.P. A ).
                          Region No. 2 New
York City
                      P.O. Box 804 Knickerbockers
Station
                New York City, New -York 10002-0804
U.S.A.
 
 
Attn: Sir/Madam.
  
 
The office of the
international police association (I.P.A) hereby write to inform you that we
caught a diplomatic called Mr. Festus Martins at (John F. Kennedy International
Airport) here in New -York with parcel box filed with united state
dollars.
 
Meanwhile, base on our interview to the diplomat (Mr. Festus
Martins) he said that the parcel box belongs to you, that he was sent by REV.
COLINS MORISON  of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency Nigeria to deliver
the parcel box to your doorstep, not knowing that the content of the parcel box
is money. The diplomat also said that her first transit in the states was at
Cincinnati Northern, Kentucky International Airport Ohio.
 
Now, the
diplomat is under detention in the office of (I.P.A) security, and we cannot
release him until we carry out our proper investigation on how this huge amount
of money managed to be yours before we will release him with the boxes. So, in
this regard, you are to re-assure and prove to us that the money you are about
to receive is legal by sending us the Award Ownership Certificate showing that
the money is not illegal.
 
Note that the Noon Residencial
Certificate/Proof Of Ownership Certificate must to be secured from the office of
the Senate president in Nigeria, because that is the only office that will issue
you the original Certificate's of these funds.
 
You are advised to
forward immediately the Certificate's if you have it with you, but if you do not
have it, we will urge you as a matter of urgency to contact back the sender of
the diplomat to help you secure those Certificate's if at all you did not have
it.
 
Below is the contact information of the person that sent the
diplomat.
 
Name: REV.COLINS MORISON
Email: johnyoungx2@msn.com
Phone:+2348033449089
 
Furthermore, we are giving you only
but 5 working business days to forward the requested
Certificate's.
 
Please note that we shall get back to you after the 5
working business days,  if you didn’t come up with the certificate we shall
confiscate the funds into World Bank account then charge you for money laundry,
but if you forward those Certificate's then we will release the diplomat with
your parcel box  and also gives you every back up till the money arrives your
doorstep.
 
Also note that we are doing this to make sure that any huge
amount of money like yours that enters United States is genuine, we regret any
inconveniences this might have caused you.
 
Thanks for your
understanding.
 
Yours Truly,
I.P.A REGION NO: 2 THANKS.
DOCTOR
DOUGLAS H. KING DDS.
contact us only on ( interps712@administrativos.com
)

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