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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 Lapointe" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <ms-carman.lapointe@yandex.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 00:39:12 -0600
Subject: Contact us immediately.

Dear Beneficiary,
 
RE:IMMEDIATE CONTRACT/INHERITTANCE CASH PAYMENT
 
PAYMENT#:UN/ADB/MOF/07/14
We write to you based on series of investigations and reports from the USA's Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), The London Metropolitan Police and other Security agencies across the world including Asia, Europe, Oceania, Antarctica against the Governments of The Great Britain and several Nations especially Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana, India etc on the alarming reports of unpaid contract remunerations and inherittance funds to contractors and beneficiaries who had diligently executed contracts in those countries.
We have actually discussed with the governments of the affected countries on the subject matter but they claimed to be doing their bests to ensure that the affected persons/beneficiaries receive their funds afterall in their accounts. As directed by our organisation, We are currently working in collaboration with the financial intelligence units of the respective countries which have been authorized to immediately process and effect 'Compensation Payments' of an initial sum of Twenty Million, Five Hundred Thousand Dollars (US$20.50M) through their apex banks to the affected beneficiaries as approved by the respective governments and the United Nations.
 
Interestingly, the alarming discovery is that some top Africans, Britons and Americans are really the brain behind the misfortunes of the affected benficiaries including you and are working in collaboration with One Mr. Richard Graves from USA to frustrate you and other affected persons and thereafter divert the funds into their personal accounts.
 
WE WISH TO INFORM YOU NOW THAT THE PAYMENTS ARE NOW BEING PROCESSED AND WILL BE RELEASED TO YOU AND OTHER AFFECTED PERSONS AS SOON AS A LETTER OF CONSENT IS RECEIVED FROM YOU WITH SOME RECONFIRMATIONS ON YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION. PLEASE NOTE THAT FROM OUR RECORDS, A COMPENSATION PACKAGE OF INITIAL US$20,500,000.00 (TWENTY MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS) WILL BE RELEASED TO YOU AS SOON AS WE RECEIVE THE CONSENT LETTER FROM YOU.
 
YOU ARE THEREFORE ADVISED TO RE-CONFIRM THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION THUS:
(1)FULL NAMES===================================
(2)PHYSICAL ADDRESS:============================
(3)TELEPHONE NUMBER:============================
(4)MOBILE NUMBER:===============================
(5)SEX:=========================================
(6)PROOF OF IDENTIFICATION:=====================
(7)AGE:=========================================
(8)OCCUPATION:==================================
(9)COUNTRY OF FUND ORIGIN:======================
AS SOON AS THE ABOVE REQUSITE INFORMATION IS RECEIVED, YOUR PAYMENT WILL BE MADE TO YOU VIA DIPLOMATIC COURIER CASH DELIVERY IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE WORLD BANK AND IMF REGULATIONS OR BY SWIFT PAYMENT AS THE CASE MAY BE.
We have a very limited time to work out payments and so would need urgent responses to this message to enable us advise you appropriately.
Yours sincerely,
Ms. Carman L. Lapointe.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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