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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: "Admiral Michael S. Rogers" <whitehouse@whitehouse.com>
Reply-To: <admiralmichaels.rogersc@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 14:36:29 -0800
Subject: Your Welcome To Office Of Admiral Michael S. Rogers Commander, U.S. Cyber Command Director, National Security Agency Chief, Central Security



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Your Welcome To Office Of Admiral Michael S. Rogers Commander, U.S.
Cyber Command Director, National Security Agency Chief, Central Security

Good day to you. Contact On My E-mail:
admiralmichaels.rogersc@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$550 (five Hundred and Fifty 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: Dan Emka
Location: Cotonou/ Benin Republic
Question: When?
Answer: Today?
Amount: $550
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: admiralmichaels.rogersc@yahoo.com
Admiral Michael S. Rogers
Commander, U.S. Cyber Command
Director, National Security Agency
Chief, Central Security.

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