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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: "National Security Nigeria Aviation" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <bgeneralkola@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 03:33:06 +0100
Subject: Anticipation your urgent response at your earliest convenient.

Good Day,

I am Inspector General Kola Benson, Head Of National Security Nigeria
Aviation, Muritala International Airport Nigeria. After the Independence
meeting with the state house of Representatives,on 09th of June 2012, Two Impersonator were cut by my security surveillance at the Cargo Department Muritala International Airport trying to smuggle A consignment containing an A.T.M master card through Ghana Exit. From our intense investigation inspection and screwing, The Two person were discoursed to be A Bank Manager and one Diplomatic Officer, trying to divert your funds to another person, using Ghana as an escape root.

After our verification and inspection the Documents Backing these
consignment sealed with A.T.M are all in your Name: and Address:
and the clearance and ownership Documents was change illegally from your name to Mr. Bruce Hancock, In Canada. To be very clear about the content, the A.T.M master card were subjected to Ultra Scan be sure that the A.T.M is not containing any terrorist Material. After the scanning has been conducted the result has shown the content of the A.T.M to be 11.5 million united state dollars bills Bank acceptable Money Spendable Cash.

The two gentle men are in our custody at the moment awaiting for
preparation for Court for the law to take it course legally. How ever I
have been appointed to make arrangement for all the necessary legal
shipment to the Rightful Beneficiary Owner.

At your receipt of this mail, kindly get back to me immediately with your
full information's as follows to enable us open a file with us. And to aid
our security monitory of every bit of the shipment to your home
delivery address without any further security Interference.

Full Name
Home delivery Address
Telephone Numbers
And a copy of your International Passport. For a proof of identity


PRIVACY ACT AND WORK REDUCTION NOTICE;
For security reason, you are hereby advised to desist from any
Business that involves magnitude of funds on this kind, as most
practices are not honest in West Africa and already existing ones on
track should be, every mail should be forward to my desk for adequate
verification, investigation and to attest the geniality of it before
authorization to proceed with.

Thank you very much for your co operation,

Anticipation your urgent response at your earliest convenient.
Respectfully Yours.
Inspector General Kola Benson
Best Regard

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