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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: INTERNATIONAL POLICE ASSOCIATION <kenbates1900@gmail.com>
Reply-To: infofr@financier.com
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 00:34:27 +0200
Subject: FROM INTERNATIONAL POLICE ASSOCIATION UNITED STATES SECTION (IPA).

Good Day,

The office of the international police association (I.P.A) hereby write to
inform you that we caught a diplomat called Mr. Festus Martins at (John F.
Kennedy International Airport) here in New -York with parcel box filed with
united state dollars.

Meanwhile, base on our interview to the diplomat (Mr. Festus Martins) he
said that the parcel box belongs to you, that he was sent by Dr Anyim Pius
Anyim. The formal senate president of Nigeria to deliver the parcel box to
your doorstep, not knowing that the content of the parcel box is money. The
diplomat also said that his first transit in the states was at Cincinnati
Northern, Kentucky International Airport Ohio.Now, the diplomat is under
detention in the office of (I.P.A) security, and we cannot release him
until we carry out our proper investigation on how this huge amount of
money managed to be yours before we will release him with the boxes. So, in
this regard, you are to re-assure and prove to us that the money you are
about to receive is legal by sending us the Ownership Certificate showing
that the money is not illegal.


Note that the Ownership Certificate must to be secured from the office of
the attorney general in Nigeria, because that is the only office that will
issue you the original Certificate of these fund. Also because that is
where your fund was originated. So you are advised to forward immediately
the Certificate's if you have it with you, but if you do not have it, we
will urge you as a matter of urgency to contact back the sender of the
diplomat to help you secure those Certificate's if at all you did not have
it.

Below is the contact information of the person that sent the diplomat.
Name: Dr Anyim Pius AnyimEmail:( aiamoffice1k@consultant.com )


Furthermore, we are giving you only but 5 working business days to forward
the requested Certificate's.Finally, note that we shall get back to you
after the 5 working business days, if you didn't come up with the
certificate we shall confiscate the funds into World Bank account then
charge you for money laundry, but if you forward those Certificate's then
we will release the diplomat with your parcel box and also gives you every
back up till the money arrives your doorstep.We are doing this to make sure
that any huge amount of money like yours that enters United States is
genuine, we regret any inconveniences this might have caused you. Thanks
for your understanding and co-operation.

Yours Truly,INTERPOL REGION NO:1
DCP.DR. DOUGLAS H. KING DDS

Cc: FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION ( FBI).
Cc: CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY ( CIA ). Cc:
HOMELAND SECURITY (HS) Cc:UNITED NATION (UN)
Cc:WHITE HOUSE ( WH )

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