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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: "John O. Brennan," (may be fake)
Reply-To: <cntralintelligenceagency@usa.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 13:00:15 -0400
Subject: Good Day Beneficiary,

Good day  Beneficiary,
 
 
        I am John O.Brennan, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an independent US Government agency responsible for providing national security intelligence to senior US policy makers, the U.S citizens and the world citizens at large Investigations revealed that you have spent a lot of your precious time obtaining fund transfer documents and other things, this resulting in you spending lots of your hard earned money, yet all efforts to receive your overdue payment have been to no avail, it might interest you to know that with us, your story will never be the same. With the help of some of the best Internet-fraud investigators attached to the (CIA), we have taken out time in screening through this project as stipulated on our protocol of operation and in addition, we sent special financial crime investigators from Washington DC to Middle East, European, Asian and African countries in other to carry out proper investigations, a
intervene in this matter.
 
 
 
      Based on the findings by our special financial crime investigators, we discovered that your impending payment is being  delayed by Impostors,  In our bid to transparency, I am pleased to inform you that a meeting was held as regards the best way to effect the compensation exercise for transparency and most especially to avoid re-occurrence of
the delay in payment. We have come to a final resolution as all the Financial Institutions involved was duly represented. It might interest you to know that all the financial institutions involved; The  payment;  One Million Five Hundred United States dollars ($1,500,000.00), Credited
with your name and with serial Numbers: 2419873 and Reg. No. MCIMJ: 5148/4172 was approved to be issued to you in any of the package that you want your fund to be send to you through an ATM card/Check/Bank transfer.
 
 
 
Your urgent action on this notice will be appreciated.
 
Sincerely,
 
 
John O. Brennan,
 

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