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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: "Mrs Ina Thacker" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mrsachimabachmeier@yahoo.co.jp>
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 07:34:29 +0200
Subject: Your quick response will help us alot!!

FROM THE DESK OF
US FEDERAL RESERVE BANK

I'm Mrs. Ina Thacker,the account general officer US Federal
reserve, wish to urgently confirm from you if actually you know
one Mr. Peter Woo who claims to be your business
associate/partner.

The said Mr. Peter Woo is claiming to this bank that you are dead
and have Instructed that all relevant documentation/Information
regarding your Payment/Transfer,be changed to him as the
beneficiary of the payment short-listed among the foreign
beneficiaries entitled to receive their payment owed to his
company.


For your Information, this Government has approved the total
amount of FIVE MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES
DOLLARS ONLY, in your favor, prior to the federal Government
instructions/mandate to offset all outstanding payments to the
various legal foreign beneficiaries around the world and your
payment file was affected. We need to confirm from you if it's
really true that you are dead as made mention by your Associate.

You should note that, if we do not hear from you,We automatically
assume that you are actually dead and the information passed to
us by Mr. Peter Woo is correct.

Hence, you are hereby requested to reply this Email immediately
for confirmation, before we proceed with this payment and for us
to know the true position of things with you so that we won't
make any mistakes/errors in remitting your out-standing payment
to a wrong person/account.

Your quick response will help us alot.

You are to send your reply to our auditor director Mrs.Achima
Bachmeier. E-mail: mrsachimabachmeier@yahoo.co.jp

Your Sincerely,
Mrs. Ina Thacker.

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