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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: "FROM THE ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRIMES COMMISSIONS,EFCC" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <desmondugonelson@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2015 09:56:37 -0700
Subject: FROM EFCC NIGERIA.

<<Counter-terrorism Division and Cyber Crime Division.>>
Economics and Financial Crimes Commissions (EFCC),
Head Office Abuja,Nigeria.
>From Ibrahim Lamorde.
Executive Chairman EFCC.

If you receive this Email as (SPAM BULK) know it error in internet server kindly move to (INBOX).


Attention Beneficiary,


This is to bring to your notice that the Nigeria ECONOMIC & FINANCIAL CRIME COMMISSION (EFCC), In alliance with the United Nation Anti-crime commission (UNACC) and the Board of Human affairs UNITED NATIONS with the (FBI) FEDERAL BUREAU INVESTIGATION, have been working towards the eradication of fraudsters and scam Artists in Western part of Africa With the help of United States Government, United Kingdom and European Government Community.

With great effort, We have been able to track down so many of this scam artist in various parts of west African countries which includes (NIGERIA, REPUBLIC OF BENIN, MALAYSIA, GHANA, DUBAI AND UK.) and they are all in our custody. We have been able to recover so much money from these scam artists. Therefore, the United Nation Anti-crime commission and the United State Government have ordered the money recovered from these Scam Artist to be shared among 100 Lucky emails found amongst the list of these fraud artist,this email is being directed to you because your email address was found in one of the scam Artists file and computer hard disk in our custody. Therefore you are qualified to claim a compensated amount of $2.5 Million United State Dollars authorized by the United Nation,Since your email appeared among the lucky beneficiaries who will receive this compensation of $2.5 Million United state Dollars, we have arranged your payment through our VISA MASTER card payment center.

Please Feel free to contact the processing officer Mr.Desmond Ugonna Nelson The VISA/MASTER MASTER Card has been specially prepared to enable you withdraw your money in any ATM machine in any part of the world, but with a Maximum withdrawal of Ten Thousand United State Dollars Per day,So you are advised to contact, processing officer Mr.Desmond Ugonna Nelson. with your provided information.

CONTACT PERSON: Mr.Desmond Ugonna Nelson.
CONTACT EMAIL ID:desmondugonelson@gmail.com
CONTACT PHONE NUMBER: +234-7033206328.

You have to call him as soon as you get this email and note that the only money you will send to him is only the Shipment/Courier fees of your ATM Visa Card Parcel.take note please as he will inform you the cost for the shipment depending your Country Locations.
Provide the below information to him for claim of your compensation funds of your $2.5 Million United State Dollars for further processing to be acknowledged in your favor.

1)YOUR FULL NAME.
2)CURRENT HOME ADDRESS.
3)YOUR DIRECT TELEPHONE NUMBER.
4)YOUR OCCUPATION/PROFESSION
5)YOUR DATE OF BIRTH/AGE
6)COUNTRY.
7)MARITAL STATUS

Note: Disregard any email you get from any impostors or offices claiming to be in possession of your Visa Master Card, you are hereby advice only to be in contact with Mr.Desmond Ugonna Nelson in charge of Visa Master Card center who is the rightful person to deal with in regards to your payment and forward any emails you get from impostors to this office so we could act upon it immediately, Help stop cyber crime.


Best Regard,
MR.IBRAHIM LAMORDE
CHAIRMAN ECONOMIC & FINANCIAL CRIME COMMISSION
ABUJA-NIGERIA.

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