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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:
- The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "await your urgent response" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
- "(efcc)" (This name is often mentioned in money recovery scams (re-scam): the real EFCC does not contact victims to offer to get their money back because that is near impossible. )
- This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
Fraud email example:
From: "MRS. FARIDA M. WAZIRI" <mrs.farida.mz.waziri@webadicta.org>
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 01:10:09 -0800
Subject: PLEASE WHAT IS THE UPDATE??????????????????
*Former Economic and Financial Crime-*
*Commission (EFCC) Chairperson/Boss *
*Seattle Washington State-USA.*
*Phone: (509) 671-9132*
*Date: 01/24/ 2014*
*CONFESSING MY SINS:*
*Attn: To Whom It May Concern,*
*How are you today? Why have you not been able to update us on the status
of the $750,000.00 assigned to you by my wife Mrs. Farida M. Waziri as a
payment for compensating you for the entire lie, cheat & trouble's she
subjected you in the past during her tenor as Nigeria (ECC Boss) on which
she confessed as been influenced by the corrupt politicians there in
Nigeria making her go against her wish betraying God and mankind.*
*Be informed that your silence in this matter is not helping I Mr. Benjamin
Waziri or my wife who has been critically sick here in University of
Washington medical center, but even at her sick bed she has not stop asking
me almost on daily basis the status of the transfer. *
*I beg on you in the name of God to find a place in your heart to forgive
my wife as she strongly believed that her present ailment has some traces
with the evil she committed against you in the past going by the fact that
a lot of taste had been carried on her by the physicians here but could not
still ascertain the cause of her ailment which made them to declared that
my wife ailment is spiritual & diabolical.*
*Please kindly notify us if the fund had been received. And I want to urge
you in the name of God to find a place in your heart to forgive my wife of
every sin against you so that Almighty God could also forgive her and heal
her deceases.*
*We await your urgent response in this matter.*
*Yours Sincerely,*
*Mr. Benjamin Okhemore Waziri onbelf of my wife>*
*Mrs. Farida Mzaber Waziri,*
*Former Nigeria (EFCC) Boss.*
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