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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: "Mr Godon Pirrez" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <pirrezmrgodon@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 13:29:17 +0100
Subject: Re: PAYMENT NOTIFICATION

Attn:
This is to notify you that your US$15.5Million has been deposited with ANZ Bank  in Australia ,  on your behalf as compensation/ accrued  interest of the money you lost in scam / illegitimate transactions of different degrees . The IMF Auditors conveyed sitting America for Second quarter supervising excise of payment of foreign beneficiaries. This supervision excise were part of the agreement reached and signed at the last G-8 meeting held in Washington between the UN,IMF,US Government and  Ministry of Finance. Your compensation will be cleared according to the global financial policy through bank legal department.
You are hereby advice to contact ANZ Bank  For your online bank account details, and make sure you abide with their instructions and do provide them with every detail they may ask of you, to enable them finalize your online wire transfer (OWT) particulars to enable you commence  transfer of your Funds to any designated bank account of your  wish.
Finally.  You will receive your compensation if you abide by this legitimate instructions, please disregard from any other transactions you have at the moment because is fraud , it does not exit, accept this compensation if you really want to recover whatever you lost in the past and also receive your approved compensation already in progress with international legal clearances  CONTACT DETAILS 833 Collins Street Docklands, Melbourne, Australia
Tel. +61 2 8607 8633   
Fax: +61 2 8520 3760
Email- michaelgreenfield@accountant.com
Contact person – Michael Green Field Yours' Faithfully
Mr  Godon Pirrez
Coordinating officer
Tel: (+33) 1 79993155
Fax: (+33) 4 72 44 71 63

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