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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: "Morris A Nicholas" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <morrisanicholas@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 08:11:04 -0500
Subject: Kindly Reply.

I am Mr.  Morris A. Nicholas Group Managing Director and Chief executive officer  with the United Bank  of Africa, we got your overdue payment fund and found out that your fund was misdirected by miscreants that handled your payment.
We discovered that your local partner and or the bankers instead of remitting your fund to you;  they invested it without your consent and further place credit facility and or high yield money program in prime. stock markets, with a help of a foundation; this placement yielded high profit of about US$3.4M. Vital proof and authority to verify funds shall be given to you in our next correspondence.
As an expert in this sort of payments couple with the fact that, I am a consultant with Prime European and American banks with top record on payouts of this sort, we will start first by paying you the accrued interest your fund acquired during the high interest money program.
If you will like us to proceed with the payment, we advise that, you acknowledge this mail.
Duly yours
Morris A. Nicholas
Group MD/CEO, UBA
Tel: +234 810 701 4822
Email: morrisanicholas@gmail.com

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