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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: GOMA DENIS <gomadenis@yahoo.fr>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 12:14:14 +0100
Subject: FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION


GLOBAL SCAM DETECTIVES BUREAU

To whom it may concern:

This office has been established and empowered to reduce scam rate
worldwide.

Due to the increased activities of scammers all over the world with
unlimited scam proposals in circulation by means of internet such as; scam
emails, scam sms, scam fax messages, scam phone calls, ATM CARDS ,fake
online transfers, manipulated loans and checks etc it has become too
difficult for the public to protect themselves from the hands of the
scammers without having such proposals investigated by trained experts in
scam detection. Members of our bureau are hard trained in scam detection
hence we are poised to fight scammers to a halt and bring to the public
quality investigation report on any case of proposals in circulation which
you may have already received or may receive in future.We are prepared and
capable to beat scammers in all their marveric strategies and free the
public from the hold and deceit of scammers.

You are advised to forward any of the following proposals listed below
etc. which you may have involved yourself may receive in future for us to
investigate the authenticity and give you a clean report to continue or to
stop forthwith further transactions regarding such proposals:

1) Bank deal of either next of kin or bank insider seeking your help to
receive fund for a promised reward to you
2) Foreign investment proposals.
3) Charity fund donation proposal from either a sick white woman or man.
4) Canadian or USA visa proposal or invitation to a conference overseas
proposal.
5) Overseas employment proposal.
6) Internet marriage or friendship proposal.
7) Lottery winning proposal.
8) All types of contract proposal.
9) Payment reminders from anywhere.
10) Western Union or Moçney Gram payment notice with or without control
numbers.
11) FBI, CIA, Homeland security,EFCC,Police Interpol report, Ecowas
monitoring group, Insurance agency etc.
12) Messages from various banks and other agencies regarding fund transfers.
13) Correspondent banks messages.
14) Online bank messages with or without pin code to access fund purported
to be in your favor.
14) Scam victim compensation.
15) Token compensation for past effort from someone that claims to have
concluded fund transfer with another person after he had contacted you
previously and wants you to beleive he is now on holiday overseas without
access to phone and internet and directing you to someone to receive the
fund he has given you as a token.
16) Security companies and purported consignments deposited with them.
17) ATM CARDS to be delivered to you or already delivered to you with or
without money credited to it.
18) Diplomatic consignment delivery.
19) Loans and foreign financiers loan offer that sometimes credits money to
your account or fails to credit.
20) Checks and Drafts.
21) Stop orders on fund release from anywhere.
22) various Certificates and guarantee issued to you.
23) All documents issued to you by any bank, security company, Insurance,
FBI, CIA, Interpol, Homeland security, EFCC, ECOWAS etc.

INSTRUCTION:

A) If you have received any of the above, be advised to report to us and
provide us few names of persons involved and the country involved, name of
bank or any institution involved to enable us carry out precise
authenhticity investigation for you before getting yourself involved to
avoid being scammed.

B) If you have already been involved in such transaction and may have spent
money and time, be advised to report to us and provide us few names of
persons involved,country involved, name of bank , security company or any
institution involved to enable us carry out precise authenhticity
investigation for you before further transaction regarding such matters to
rescue you from the deceit of scammers and save you from being scammed
further.

C) Report to us any Phone numbers that may have called you making you
beleive that the callers are actually in the country reflecting the numbers
such as USA PHONE NUMBERS ETC. to enable us find out the authenticity of
the numbers and the callers.

D) If you have been exposed to boxes containg Dollar bills in any bank or
security company anywhere purported to be for you , do not take it to be
real until we have investigated it. Do not believe any Gold business
transaction until we have investigated it for you.

GENERAL ASSURANCE:

I: Be assured that if we discover that there was attempt to deceive and
scam you with any of the listed proposals or any other proposal, we shall
make a case of rights abuse for you and secure adequate compensation for
you that ranges between US$100,000. and US$300,000.

II: If we discover that you have already fallen victim to scam, we shall
make a case of scam abuse for you and secure adequate compensation for you
that ranges between US$100,000. and US$4M.

Your response must be accompanied with your full name, Mobile Phone
numbers,country of origin and country of residence.

Our services is almost free except for the minor surveilance mobilization
fee of US$. which you will pay to us for commencement of water-tight
sensitive authenticity investigation.

Thanks for listening.
Yours faithfully,
Mr.Denis Goma

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