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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: "HOMELAND SECURITY USA" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <n.mcwenn@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 09:53:11 -0300
Subject: DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY WASHINGTON D.C.

Secretary Janet Napolitano
Department of Homeland Security
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Washington, D.C. 20528

Attn: Beneficiary,

I am Mrs. Janet Napolitano, the personal secretary of the

United States Homeland Security. After proper investigations,

we discovered that your impending payment that have been

withheld by imposters, have been transferred to Central State

Bank here in the United States of America.

Investigations revealed that you have spent a lot on your

personal earned money just to conclude the successful transfer

of your funds to your nominated bank account by obtaining

transfer documents as requested by the imposters, costing you a

lot of money but all to no avail.

The Home Land Security has giving authority to the Central

State Bank to assist the Federal Ministry of Finance and all

the organization involved; such as the Central Bank, Zenith

Bank, and Legit lottery organizations to immediately commence

with the compensation of all the beneficiaries awaiting the

successful transfer of their funds. With the help of some of

the best Internet investigators attached to the Homeland

Security, we traced your information from the Internet as one

of the beneficiaries awaiting the successful transfer of funds

to your nominated account.

I am pleased to inform you that you have a total of 10,000,000

US DOLLARS WITH THE BANK in California FOR TRANSFER OF YOUR

FUNDS TO YOUR BANK ACCOUNT. Please note that, you are not

supposed to pay more than $350. ONLY, which is to set-up your

online account.

Contact Mr. Frederick Hsing
Central State Bank U.S.A
Tel#: 646-504-0915
EMAIL: frederick_centerstatebnk@postino.de

YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION:
FULL NAME:
HOUSE ADDRESS:
CELLPHONE NUMBER:
CURRENT OCCUPATION:

Secretary Janet Napolitano
Department of Homeland Security
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Washington, D.C. 20528

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