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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: "Rev, Peter Hansen" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <margofinancialconsultation@lycos.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 05:46:28 -0700
Subject: Interntional Reconciliation Programme

Dear. Beneficiary
The Newly Elected President of Nigerian and secretary of the United Nations, in-conjunction with the Central Bank of Nigeria instructed that 200 scam victims should be paid a compensation fee of $1.5 million.
Get back to me if you want to be part of this new resolution and do not communicate or duplicate this message to anyone, the US secret service, FBI, and other financial monitoring agencies are already on track to ensure equity in refunds. The payments are to be paid through Federal Reserve Account Unit, Funding assistance by the Union Bank .and United Bank For Africa (UBA)

You are to receive your compensations payment via any of the below Options:

(1) CASH DELIVERY
(2) THROUGH ATM SWIFT MASTER PAYMENT.

Let us know your choice of payment as I will not disclose further
Information until I hear from you.

Yours faithfully,
Rev Peter Hansen
International Debt Repayment Consultant

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This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named in the Federal compensation and Government payment payroll List.. If you are not the intended recipient you are notified that disclosing, copying, distributing or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited.

WARNING: E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secured or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission.
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