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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: "Mr. Lamberto Zannier" <europeanunioncommissioncommit@yandex.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 16:24:41 +0000 (GMT)
Subject:



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Good Day,

>From the desk of European Union Commission Committee on Financial and
Allied Matter. I do not want this good news to be shock to you as you
weren't actually expecting such letter. Am using this immense medium to
inform you that after several petition passed to this office over our
silent regarding the rampant and rapid rate of Internet scammer on the
global Internet in various ways to cheat on people either through contract
funds, inheritance funds, churches, approved pending consignment box,
winning lottery funds, Internet marriage, investment, loan, Visa agent etc

A meeting was held by the various international organization such as:
World Governing Bodies: The International Monetary Funds (IMF), United
Nations Organization (UNO), World Bank Group, United States Government,
British Government and United State Interpol following series of
complaints and petitions received from the office of the European Union Police
Commission, the Federal Bureau Investigation (FBI) to look on what to do
to eradicate the high rate of fraud on the Internet and to ensure that they
compensate those who have been fraud or attempt to be Internet scammers
after they have forward their necessary information thinking that upon the
provision of the needed info and vital requirement, their funds will be
release to their home or bank account rather they are been deceived.

In conclusion of this meeting held today, we decided to compensate those
who must have fall or attempt to be cheated by some unscrupulous Internet
fraud stars. In other for us to get the victim contact details to receive
their compensation funds,an online victim draws was conducted by a
standard random selection of victims email addresses from an exclusive list of
29,031,643 E-mail addresses of individuals and corporate bodies picked by
an advanced automated random computer search from the Internet. so lucky
your email id was among those selected to receive their compensation sum
of 750,000.00 Great British Pounds Sterling which is equal to the sum of
1,136,100.00 USD. Please do reply this office urgently so that we can
further the process of your compensation lump amount to be remitted to you
through bank to bank transfer or diplomatic means without official delay.

You are to reply with your name and telephone number and address so that i
can forward to you all the relevant documents which you will have to sign
as the bonafide beneficiary of the compensation funds to enable you claim
your funds after all the legal procedures.

Your prompt response to this letter will be highly needed.

Warm Regards

Secretary General
Mr. Lamberto Zannier
Contact Email: europeanunioncommissioncommit@gmail.com
Contact Email: europeanunioncommissioncommit@yandex.com
Telephone Number +18302173190

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