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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: "Ms. Carman L. LaPointe" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <lapointecarman01@gmx.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2014 07:53:01 +0100
Subject: Your payment by UN Under-Secretary-General For Internal Oversight Services

My dear beneficiary,
It is with great disappointment that I am writing this mail to you having contacted you previously to intimate you of Mr President decision to pay your fund to you via your internet on-line bank account. Dr. William Ayodele the Director of Payment Federal Ministry of Finance has brought to the knowledge of the President your refusal and inability to comply with the re-activation of your internet on-line bank account.
Dr. William Ayodele is the Director of Payment Federal Ministry of Finance and therefore has the mandate of the President DR. GOODLUCK JONATHAN to correspond with you and facilitate the payment of your fund via on-line bank transfer. However it beat my imagination as to why you refused to comply with him towards the payment of the re-activation fee of US$189.
In view of this, I have taken it upon myself to contact you one more time to inform you of the need to re-activate your internet on-line bank account so that you can access your account and further transfer your fund directly into your local bank account by yourself without any interference, hitch or request for further fees by anybody.
I will sincerely urge you to go ahead and contact back Dr. William Ayodele at the following email address (finance.act.details@gmail.com) so that you can comply with his directives towards the payment of the re-activation fee of US$189. However, he will not hesitate to recommend to the President for the closure and confiscation of your fund of US$10.5million if you fail to contact and comply with him withing 24 hours. Kindly be informed that this is going to be my last communication with you so you are kindly advised to contact him now. WARNING!!! Please do not contact him if you are not ready to pay the activation fee.
 
 
>From the Desk of Mrs. Farida Mzaber Waziri
Former Economic an

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