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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: "Info" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <fbnplc@pisem.net>
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2013 10:31:45 +0100
Subject: Re: You won US$1,000,000.00 online free promo

PLOT 67-68 GRAND FLOOR TO 21ST FLOOR,
VICTORIA ISLAND, LAGOS NIGERIA


Attention: Email Account Holder.

Congratulations! We are pleased to announce to you as one of the lucky Winners in the END OF THE YEAR FIRST BANK WESTERN UNION LOTTERY PROMO draw held on Monday 7th October, 2013. All promo winner email addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 20,000,000 local and international emails from our data base. Your Email address emerged alongside 2 others as a 3rd Category winner in this month's draw.

Consequently, you have therefore been approved for a total pay out of US $1000,000.00 (One Million US dollars) only. Your winning numbers: 05-20-21-23-25-45 winning reference #: FBN-945087 Serial number: 5368/12 Promo batch number: TYRE56756

Please you have to contact claims agent with below information:
Name: Mr. Joly Osamen
Email: josamen@pisem.net


Please reach the fiduciary agent on the above email for your winning prize. this email is automatic transmission from our promo draw machine.


Regards,

FBN PROMO
FIRST BANK OF NIGERIA PLC

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