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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: OFFICE <pcgiap.mongolia@mongol.net>
Reply-To: <jamesrclapper.thdirectorofni@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 09:50:43 -0700
Subject: Your welcome to office of James Robert Clapper, Jr Director of
National Intelligence.


Your welcome to office of James Robert Clapper, Jr
Director of National Intelligence.

Good day to you. Contact On My E-mail:
jamesr.jamesrclapper.thdirectorofni@yahoo.com

I write to inform you that your payment file have been closed and a
8cheques issued in your name

to be delivered to you. This is after your fund was abandoned and the
government directive have

recently requested that we close all accounts in this category and
return all unclaimed sums to

the Government Treasury, we do not return funds before letting the
owners know of it.

As you should know, we do not pay for deliveries as this is entirely
your responsibility. It is

therefore upto you if you want to make arrangement for us to deliver
this 8cheques to you or not,

delivery cost is US$ 210 (Tow Hundred and Ten U.S. Dollars) only,
paying this (as mentioned

above) is entirely upto you but we will guarantee you that we will
deliver this 8cheques to you

once the above sum is paid. Let us know of your readiness to make this
payment so that we can

advise you on how to make the payment and then proceed to deliver your
8cheques Total sum of

$596Million.

BELOW IS THE RECEIVERS INFORMATION.

Receivers Name: Mr James Ike
Location: Cotonou/ Benin Republic
Question: When?
Answer: Today?
Amount: $ 210
Senders Name:
Mtcn Number:

You are also advised to send us a confirmation of your full mailing
address And cell phone number

for delivery of same.

Regards

E-mail: jamesr.jamesrclapper.thdirectorofni@yahoo.com
James Robert Clapper, Jr
Director of National Intelligence.




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