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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: "Pala Samuel" <ifonxx002@aol.com>
Reply-To: e7757670@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 05:41:45 +0100
Subject: Fund Recovery: 2014


- This mail is in HTML. Some elements may be ommited in plain text. -

>From the desk of: Mr. Pala Samuel.
The Vice Chairman,
International Investigations and Anti Fraud Task Force,
For African Region 2014.
Dear,
My name is Mr. Pala Samuel . I'm the vice Chairman of the International Investigations and Anti Fraud Task Force,
For African Region 2014. Sir, we the entire delegates of the above office flew into Lagos city of Nigeria recently
because of numerous complaints filed against Nigerian government on their inability to pay foreign beneficiaries
Inheritance, Contracts and Compensatory funds into their respective banks accounts even after they must have
collected all required transfer fees from these foreign beneficiaries.
This is the reason why we were mandated by the United Nations (US) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to fly
into West Africa and rectify these problems by making sure foreign beneficiaries receive their long over due funds
fund without making further upfront payment(s).
>From the time we came into Nigeria, we have been able to repatriate some funds that was wrongly diverted into
different bank accounts abroad by the bad eggs in the Nigerian banks and ministries.
Further more ,from your file here on my table I\'m so surprised that you have not received your payment up till
this moment as from what I saw in your file, you have complied with all the transfer documents that shows and
proved your legitimacy as the beneficiary of this fund. We signed a memorandum of understanding with the Nigerian
govt to pay off all certified foreign beneficiaries from our own liquidity (Available Funds) in our UN / EU
controlled bank in UK, and we will debit the Nigerian government and recover our money from same through their
crude oil.
Finally, Are you still alive and healthy? If you are still alive, you are required to immediately respond to this
mail, so that we will send to you our payment transfer form to fill in correctly in other to receive your fund in
your choice bank account.
Regards.
Mr. Pala Samuel.
Vice Chairman,
Anti-fraud Intl.,
Presently in Lagos Nigeria,
West Africa.

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