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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: "GREGORY ANDREW" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <anti_fraud1@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 17:18:12 -0800
Subject: THE OFFICE OF THE BARACK OBAMA SCAM VICTIM COMPENSATION SCHEME

40 Capitol Square, SW, Atlanta,
GA 30334-1300
(404) 507-2346


FROM THE OFFICE OF THE BARACK OBAMA SCAM VICTIM COMPENSATION SCHEME

Its no longer a news that millions of American citizens and the rest of the world have been victims of Internet fraud in one way or the other.
THE BARACK OBAMA SCAM VICTIM COMPENSATION SCHEME is designed to assist and compensate the individuals that has been swindled and ripped off by this unscrupulous internet smart scammers.

We were able to recover some names of the scammed victims through Western Union and Money Gram, because its seems that’s
the easy means by which the scammers obtains money from their prey.
Your details was found among the list of names that have made payment via Western Union or Money Gram.

The total sum of $750,000USD will be deposited into your account as soon as we confirm your details as been a victim of scam. This is to also add value and credit to the Barack Obama’s government.
Please if you have ever made payment via western union or money gram, reply to this email with your: anti_fraud1@aol.com

Note: Ignore all emails asking you to pay certain amount of money to get your compensation for all the money required for the documentation of your funds will be sorted out by the Government out of the Money your been compensated with. We need the information below to confirm that your the rightful owner of the funds and not someone else
.................................................................................
FULL NAME:
ADDRESS:
SCANNED COPY OF A VALID IDENTITY CARD:
TELEPHONE NUMBER:
LIST OF COUNTRIES YOU SENT MONEY TO:
AMOUNT OF MONEY LOST IN THIS PROCESS:
.................................................................................

More also after the provision of the above information your details will be forwarded to our head office in other to commence with the transfer of your funds into your Bank Account. For your interest we will need you to open a new bank account in which we could make transfers of your funds because we got complains of people been scared to drop their personal bank account information that's why we came up with this scheme and for each state and city in the United State of America we have Banks and Credit Union we work with so we going to let you know the Bank to open or the Credit Union


If you have any doubts we can give you phone numbers to call of people who got compensated.
For more information you can call us on (404) 507-2346 of better of email us at anti_fraud1@aol.com

Thank you
Yours Sincerely
Gregory Andrew

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