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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: "Verification & Information Officer," (may be fake)
Reply-To: <goodluck03oo@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2012 22:34:16 -0000
Subject: United State of America Debt Clearing Service] REPLY URGENT

Verification & Information Officer,
United State of America Debt Clearing service,
Email: goodluck03oo@yahoo.com.hk
 
Attention:
 
This information  has been Conducted  by the us legal authorities as instructed by the president(Barack Obama) earlier this month of November concerning several received reports by defrauded US citizen and non citezen in the whole world  duped by Africans, the verification has been indicated that if you are one of the individuals duped or about to be duped. please kindly make immediate contact for your payment
 
because the Verification shows if you have an unpaid fund with Africa London Spain and other country, and you have been contacted severally by impostors originating from Africa through email and telephone, claiming that the have the authority to release your approved fund to you.
 
Do note that those individuals that contacted you or you are having dealings with, are unemployed crooks/impostors that have turned internet as there means of getting there daily breads from innocent People, they must have gathered your payment informations from corrupt bank officers, and there intention is not to release your funds to you, but to take that you have saved for your own personal use by giving you assurances to make payments for clearance documents, etc, to enable them release your funds to you.
 
Based on this recent discovered, the president who recently won for the second term (Barack Obama) didn't forget defrauded people in the name of scam and those that are yet to get there fund from Africa, he went further to create this newly formidable body (United State Debt Clearing Service) and the function of this newly created formidable body is to collect personal data’s from discovered deceived victims, then run a second verification and finally make payments to each beneficiary.
 
From our first legal verification we discovered that you have an unpaid fund (USD$15,000,000.00) Please correct this if we are wrong and have been contacted by this unemployed crooks through email or telephone, we advise you to quit every further communications with them, since we are 100% sure that the have no access to make payments of your long outstanding recovered unpaid fund, rather will mislead you to take your money with no fund paid to you by them as indicated to you.
 
We are glad to inform you that your fund will be ready to be released to you by this organization with immediate effect but will be your duty to reconfirm your below payment data to this organizations for a second verification
 
1. Full Names      
2. Telephone Number       
3. Address      
4. ID card Copy
 
Please send your above payment detail through our official email address below:  goodluck03oo@yahoo.com.hk
 
On receipt of your above required data’s, a second verification will be conducted followed with immediate payments to you by our authorized financial institution.
Mr. Goodluck Taylor

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