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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: "Mr. Peter Andrew" <mrpeterandrew777@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: mrpeterandrew9@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 19:36:22 +0800
Subject: [¥iºÃ©U§£«H] Dear Sir/Madam,

INT'L FINANCIAL MONITORING COMMISSION
MAERSK HOUSE, 3RD FLOOR
PLOT 121 LOUIS SOLOMON CLOSE
OFF AHMADU BELLO WAY
VICTORIA ISLAND
LAGOS STATE-NIGERIA

Attention!!!

Dear Sir/Madam,

You are contacted based on the letter of petition received from scammed
victims against the federal government of Nigeria, through office of the
united nation on human right in Nigeria. The upper house chambers after the
last federal executive council meeting directed office of the international
financial monitoring commission to look into the matter and also compile list
of all the entire scammed victims through the appropriate channels for
settlement. Following our investigation, your email address is among the
scammed victims. Also decision has been reached by the federal executive
council to compensate each of the scammed victims with the sum of Five Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars (USD500, 000.00 ) and the payment code attached
to your file is FEC-SV/014-20. Note that it is important you quote the payment
code in every of your communication with this office and also provide the
information listed below for onward submission to the financial institution
assigned by the federal executive council to.


Full Names
Contact Address
Telephone Number

Regards,
Mr. Peter Andrew
Information Officer
For:( IFMC)


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