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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: "Dr Charles Okoye" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <drcharles0k0ye@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 04:44:34 -0700
Subject: Reconfirm below information to the company.p

Attention,

After proper and several investigations and research at Federal inland securities, we found your name in Western Union database amongst those that have sent money through Western Union to Nigeria and this proves that you have truly been swindled by those unscrupulous persons by sending money to them through Western Union in the course of getting one fund or the other that is not real, right now we are working hand in hand with Western Union to track every fraudsters down, do not respond to their e-mails, letters and phone calls any longer as they are scammers and you should be very careful to avoid being a victim to fraudsters any longer because they have nothing to offer you but to rip-off what you have worked earnestly hard to earn.

In this regard a meeting was held between the Board of Directors of The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and as a consequence of our investigations it was agreed that the sum of (US$1.500,000.00) should be transferred to you out of the funds that Federal Government of Nigeria has set aside as a compensation to everyone who have by one way or the other sent money to fraudsters in Nigeria.

***Please note that we will no longer be liable for any loss, cost or expense whatsoever, suffered or incurred by You in connection with the fraudsters.

Be warned! We have deposited and also paid for the delivery fee of your $1.5,000 000.00 Million US Dollars, as consignment box to FEDERAL INLAND SECURITY COMPANY.

I would be gone on a visit to a friend and will not come back till Dec,2013. I will want you to contact the FEDERAL INLAND SECURITY COMPANY to know when they will be delivering your consignment. I have paid for the delivery charges and also the insurance fee,the only fee you will have to pay them is the monthly demurrage fee which they would
pay the security department that are guarding your consignment since the date of deposit. But if you will be very fast in contacting them, you will be charged only one month demurrage fee which will cost only $58 USD. So i urge you to contact them as soon as you receive this email.

CONTACT: Mr. Peter A.Rogers MANAGER, FEDERAL INLAND SECURITY COMPANY.

E-mail: pickettteressa@yahoo.com

Try to contact him as soon as possible to avoid increase in demurrage fee. I gave them your delivery address but you have to reconfirm it to
them again to avoid any mistakes in the delivery of your fund.

Reconfirm below information to the company.

Your Full Name-----------------------
Your Address-------------------------
Home Telephone-----------------------
Office Telephone---------------------

Note: You are to contact the FEDERAL INLAND SECURITY COMPANY MANAGER via this email:-- (pickettteressa@yahoo.com ) Finally indicate this code: GM0081 when contacting them, it will identify that you are the owner of the $1.500.000.00 consignment trunk box deposited in the
company. Do let me know as soon as you receive your consignment and take a proper account of the content, and see that it contains $1.500.000.00

Regards,
Dr. Charles Okoye
dr.charlieokoye@yahoo.co.uk

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