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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 JOE AKA" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mrjeoaka@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 00:43:40 +0100
Subject: OFFICE OF THE PAYMASTER GENERAL MR JOE AKA

 
 
 
 
 
 
OFFICE OF THE PAYMASTER GENERAL (Mr. JOE AKA)
PHarcourt Crescent, Off Gimbiya St,
Area II, Abuja
 
Dear Fund Benneficiary.
 
We wish to announce to you that one of our big customers sent some huge amount of money in your name for the settlement of your long awaited funds. This amount is valued at thirty Nine Million Five Hundred Thousand US.Dollars 9,500,000.00( Nine Million Five Hundred Thousand US.Dollars).
 
Also following the protest of the International Community, The World Bank, IMF and the instruction by the President and Commander in Chief of the armed forces(President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan) that all outstanding forieghn debts especially next of kin,Lottery Winnings and Contract payments should be released to benefeciaries forthwith unconditionally.
 
To this regards we have opened up an escrow account for this payment process, and have arranged your funds for immediate payment to you forthwith and unconditionally we have taking all this strict measurses to safegaurd the amount involved so that no other persorn can have acess to this funds except you and we shall transfer the money to your account immediately,as we have been instructed to make sure that this payment gets to you forthwith and unconditionally.
 
Be informed that you have been approved to receive payment and that we have schedulded three payment channels to handle this bulky payment to you,you are to choose from the below 4 lists payment procedure which you will like to receive this payment.
 
1. We can convert the funds to an A.T.M and send to your address , if you choose this payment process, then confirm your address where you want the A.T.M card sent to,as soon as the A.T.M card is sent we shall send you the tracking number so that you will know when exactly the card will reach you.
 
2.(Bank Of America counter payment)In this process you can go to any Bank Of America location fill out a withdrawal slip with the encrypted details we shall send to you and withdraw your money in cash. Note , that the maximum transaction permited in the above account on a daily bases is only $15,000.000 if this amount is exceeded ,then your account will be freezed inline with the Bank Of America Banking Policy Rules And Regulation
 
3.Online banking payment procedure ,In this process an online account will be set up for you with our sister bank in the U.S.A,and the whole funds will be deposited into this account,after that you will be provided with the bank login details so that you can login into the bank website and then transfer to any account of your choice while sitting back home on your PC(personnal computer),in this process you can transfer a dailiy limit of $200,000.00 on a daily bases and more depending on the limit your account can receive on a daily bases,this amount can be increased after the first transfer.
 
4.Direct Bank to bank transfer from our local bank here in Nigeria, our mother bank the Central bank Of Nigeria,
Once money is transfered we shall send you the payment slip for you to go to your account and confirm it,the maximum paid in this process is(US$250,000.00)
 
 
WE NEED YOUR INFORMATION TO TRANSFER THIS FUND TO YOU SO THAT WE WILL KNOW THAT YOU ARE THE RIGHT PERSON THAT WE ARE DEALING WITH, SUCH AS
 
FULLNAME ......
FULL Address.....
PHONE NUMBER...........
COUNTRY.............
SEX......
OCCUPATION.........
ACCOUNT NUMBER.......
CONTACT MR JOE AKA ON EMAIL ...mrjeoaka@gmail.com

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