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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: "ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRIMES COMMISSION" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <efcccybercrimewatchdept318@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 09:13:05 -0400
Subject: FROM ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRIMES COMMISSION REGARDING YOU BEING SCAM VICTIM URGENT RESPONSE.

ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRIMES COMMISSION.
MR. IBRAHIM LAMORDE

ATTENTION VICTIM:



Dear victim, in respect of your message to our office and the complain you made we want you to understand that we have swift into action to make sure the impostors get arrested and put in jail with your help by forwarding any message they sent to you include with their email address, phone number and their names to enable us to get them arrested we promise and guarantee you that if you can do so we will get them arrested within 2 weeks because we have many of them in our custodian jail which we are still looking for them and by the grace of God we will make sure we them arrest all of them and jail them because the are violating the rules. note that any message those impostors sent to you must be forwarded to our office for verification so that we can get them arrested and you must not let them know that we are looking for them to avoid them running away and the message they sent to you do forward it to us and you must not reply to them till you forward the message to our off!
ice for verification. If they send


As far as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC and the war against economic crime and corruption in Nigeria is concerned, Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde remains an iconic figure. At every turn in the short history of the agency, his name crops up. In the formative years of the Commission, he was the valiant “heart” of the Commission and the rallying point in the partnership between the EFCC and its strategic allies. He is the only one to have twice served as Director of Operations and Acting Chairman of the agency.A member of the pioneer officers drafted from the Nigeria Police that midwife the EFCC in 2003 under the leadership of Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, Lamorde is a thorough bred professional with vast experience in fraud investigation spanning more than two decades. He is an epitome of discipline, hard work, and greatly admired by many for his warmth and geniality.


Base on our last message sent to you which we stated to you that we are going to get them arrested and we want to inform you that your funds will be release to you within 7 days and all the money you spent or sent to them will be recovered and sent to you back which you cannot loose any of your funds. we want you to abide with our instruction so that your funds can be release to you and you will recover all the funds you spent or sent to those impostors within 2 weeks only if you will abide our instruction as we monitor all the transaction you have because all of them all impostors which they are damaging our names in the worlds we have put an internet monetary funds scan on air to get them arrested. in respect of the fees they required please do not send the money to them because we want to get them arrested we will want you to send the money to our respond office in united states of America so that we will direct them to come then and collect the money and once they come t!
hen they will get arrested and the


HERE IS THE INFORMATION NEEDED FOR THE RELEASE OF YOUR FUNDS
YOUR FULL NAME:
YOUR DIRECT ADDRESS:
YOUR CITY NAME:
YOUR STATE NAME:
YOUR COUNTRY NAME:
YOUR DIRECT PHONE NO:
A SCANNED COPY OF IDENTIFICATION:


We wait for your urgent respond as soon as you received this message and notify us when and date you will like your funds to be release to you because the impostors must get arrested within two weeks we promised and guarantee you that you will recover all the funds you spent or sent to them and your funds will be release to you also. Your direct phone number is requested. Be informed that once you your information given to you your funds will be release to you within 75 hours.


REGARDS,



SINCERELY YOURS
MR. IBRAHIM LAMORDE (ACTIVE CHAIRMAN EFCC)
ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRIMES COMMISSION.

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