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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.Alexander Williams(Esq.)" <arifnassarbiz6@gmail.com>
Reply-To: alexanderwilliamsesq@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 22:55:09 +0100
Subject: YOUR COMPENSATION APPROVED CODE IS #CB/ZT-21481

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Attention please,

How are you today? Hope all is well with you and your family despite
your delayed payment? You may not understand why this mail came to
you. We have been having a meeting for the passed 7 months which ended
2 days ago with the secretary to the UNITED NATIONS. All contingencies
has been cleared but the release of the ATMCARD will be legalized in
your last name .

This email is to all the people that have been scammed in any part of
the world, the UNITED NATIONS have agreed to compensate them with the
sum of US$ 950,000.00 This includes every foreign contractors that may
have not received their contract sum, and people that have had an
unfinished transaction or international businesses that failed due to
Government problems etc.

We also found out that some people did not finish their transactions
because of bad draft and problems in bank to bank transfers and so,
for this reason, we have new ways of moving your payment to you and
surely, you will have no problem with that as everyone have been happy
and receiving their funds through this new channels.
OPTIONALLY, if, you want to receive cash payment, we will use
embassy's diplomatic team to deliver to you but it must be legalized
through the notary and you receive copies of the legal documents.

We found your name in our list and that is why we are contacting you,
this has been agreed upon and has been signed.

Therefore, you should send your full contact details as follows;

1. Your full name
2. Address where we can send the atm card to you
3. CELL/MOBILE Telephone number
4. Date of Birth


Send your reply to : alexanderwilliamsesq@gmail.com



Thanks and God bless you and your family. Hoping to hear from you as
soon as you receive your payment.

Making the world a better place

Mr.Alexander Williams
Secretary, Diamond Bank Plc

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