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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: =?UTF-8?B?IkJlbnNvbiBPbGlzYSI=?= <ofice9002002@terra.com.co>
Date:
Subject:

Dear  Beneficiary ,

I am newly appointed sectary  gener= al  of ACP/ Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS)  on= my desk  I saw your pending payment
transfer that suppose to be pa= id to you from Africa continent.

But during my investigations last w= eek I noticed that this your payment  worth US$16.5 Million Sixteen&nb= sp;   Million Five Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars,&nbs= p; supposed to be transfer/ send to you for a very long time, now during my= investigations I notice  also that
this unpaid payment was hanged = to Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) Escrow account, but wh= en I verified this properly last
week I was privilege to know that some = group of in-posters want to manipulate on the funds through some of ex staf= fs  (UBA Bank)    whom
wanted to corner the money to= one offshore bank account in Europe

But I succeeded with my positio= n in the office to put a stop to this ongoing transfer to the Europe offsho= re account now I want to know
first and famous if you are still alive be= cause during my verification the transfer documents shows that you have (pa= ss on to ghost) but I
was not still convince to that report in the trans= fer files, that was reason i search deeply to get more information i have i= n the file
about being the real beneficiary of this funds.

Can yo= u please reconfirmed back to the approved office for this payment  by = sending  your current details  to them so that I can see
what = next I can do to help you out to get your funds  transferred or send&n= bsp; to you,  this is my promise to you.

Send  to me your = full details as stated bellow

Your    Full Names:
= Your  Phone Number:
Your  physical Address:

We shall co= mmence on with you immediately we receive back from you,

Regards,
Sir Benson Olisaa
Sectary to General-Secretary of ACP

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