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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Chief Justice John G. Roberts. Jr." (may be fake)
Reply-To: <johnrobert690@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 09:43:12 +0300
Subject: Notice of Diversion of Funds. (Audit)

The:-Supreme Court of the United States
Address: - First Street NE, Washington, DC 20543, United States
From The Desk of Chief Justice John G. Roberts. Jr.
Email. johng.roberthechiefjustice@yahoo.com.hk
 
 
             Notice of Diversion of Funds. (Audit)
Attn:-
 
 
The Supreme Court of the United States Enforcement Network this morning decided with the FBI to arrest some tope bank officials, the high court where they will be facing trial  for Diversion of $10.5Million United Nation Poverty Alleviation Scheme, Inheritance/Winning and contract refunds allocated to  you as compensation payment. The arrest according to the Financial Crimes  Enforcement  Network, the bank officials was arrested for redirecting funds belonging to  you, as  awarded to you from the United Nation Poverty Alleviation Scheme.  The bank  officials was also appointed to handle the transfer  of your funds and to process the  payment of $10.5 million compensation payment allocated to you from the United Nation  Poverty  Alleviation Scheme.
 
 
According to the  petition, this payment has been allocated to you for years now and  early July last year, the United Nation Poverty Alleviation Scheme set-up a 10 man  Investigation Audit Committee to investigate all the payment that was approved to know  if its has been accredited to the accounts of the beneficiary's whose name was listed.  The 10 man Investigation Audit committee after appropriate investigation discovered  that,  The bank officials was said to have sometime signed and received the sum of $10.5 Million USD  (Ten Million Five Hundred US Dollars) from United Nation Poverty  Alleviation Scheme on behalf of his customer as there account's officer; rather than  remit the funds to you, he was said to have converted the said amount to his personal  account while all efforts to make him refund the money to you proved abortive.
 
 
The 10 man Investigation Audit committee and United Nation Poverty Alleviation Scheme  jointly petitioned the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network to visit the case and  recover fund that was diverted from all the affected persons. The lawyer assigned from  U.S Legal Counsel who claimed that the bank officials refused to pay you $10.5 Million  from United Nation Poverty Alleviation on you behalf.
 
 
The trial judge, Justice Michael Rolland admitted all the diverted $10.5 million will be
released and refunded to the beneficiary after he provided valuable evidence confirming  that he didn’t receive the payment of $10.5 million that was legally allocated to him or  her
 
 
Thanks.
 
 
The  Chief Justice John G. Roberts. Jr.
First Street NE, Washington, DC 20543, United States

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