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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: "justin.michaels012" <justin.michaels012@gmail.com>
Reply-To: africaninvestmentbank@kimo.com
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 18:06:45 +0100
Subject: Your fund has been released.

My name is Mr. Iyke Moore I’m the director of foreign operations of
the African Investment Bank AIB, I was instructed by Mr. Rudrig Fassi
to transfer the total sum of Usd$2,800,000.00 two million eight
hundred thousand dollars to your account as your compensation/share of
the investment fund. According to him, he contacted you years ago to
assist him for investment in your country but you suddenly stopped
responding to him so he invested the fund in Kuwait where he is with
his family presently but he never disclose his contact information to
this bank as he promised since March 10th 2012.

He instructed us to transfer this total sum of Usd$2,800,000.00 two
million eight hundred thousand dollars to your account as your
compensation and we have written you several emails since then but
never receive any response from you. We have waited for so long and if
nothing is done urgently, the bank will abandon your fund as a suspend
fund, you are hereby advised to contact the bank accredited attorney
with your bank data and personal details because we will transfer your
fund direct to your account by telegraphic transfer or by ATM card
which we will send to your address with the pin code through DHL or
UPS express courier service. please remember there is dot in the
attorney email address to avoid mistake, so you need to copy the email
as it is written.

Below is the bank accredited attorney contact information bellow:

Name: Barr. Ngozika O.
E-mail: ( peoples.chambers@yahoo.fr )

Your urgent response is highly needed for immediate action.

My regards,

Mr. Iyke Moore
D.F.O, AIB

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