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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 Mike" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mmr3306@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 05:39:34 +0100
Subject: I need your urgent respond

FFrom The Office Of
Mr Jerry Snow
IMF.
Attn: Beneficiary,
I am Mr. Mike, the Head of compensation Payment for the IMF. After proper investigations, we discovered that your impending
payment that have been withheld by impostors, 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 impostors, costing you a lot of money but all to no avail.
The IMF 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 United Nations, 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 1,650,000 US DOLLARS WITH THE BANK in Florida 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#: 7243673414
EMAIL: mr.frederickhsing@hotmail.com
YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION:
FULL NAME:
HOUSE ADDRESS:
CELLPHONE NUMBER:
CURRENT OCCUPATION:
Mr Mike
IMF

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