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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: Chief Financial Officer <Eileen@jeminc.net>
Reply-To: <hammedk6711@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 23:23:16 +0200
Subject: Transfer Confirmation


Transfer Confirmation
=

Attn: Beneficary,
Please i want to inform you that your fund was brought to our desk,of $1.8=
Million dollars, but it seems as you don't want to speak or write back to u=
s. However, One Mr Peter visited my office, with a Beninios lawyer with app=
lication of claim over your USD$1.8Million dollars with this financial inst=
itution.
=

Please, do confirm to us, as matter of urgency if this man is really from y=
ou so that this office will not be held esponsible for paying wrong person.=
Based on board of directors meeting today, they have concluded to approve =
the payment on his favor since you failed to fulfill the obligation given t=
o you by the wire transfer Department, to process your payment. Therefore, =
if you are really serious and willing to receive the first $1.8Million doll=
ars through Diplomatic delivery, kindly get back to us and we will work wit=
h you to complete this your long awaited fund, so you are to effect the pay=
ment processing fees so that you will start expect your USD$1.8Million doll=
ars via over night delivery.
Since the Payment processing fee is $890 in my concerted efforts to actual=
ize your fund payment with the convenient time schedule I will raise $590, =
so I am expecting $300 from you today. As an insider in this Financial Inst=
itution, I must assure you that once you have provided to the Bank with the=
ir demands, they would now be under legal obligation to transfer the funds=
to you within 24hours once we confirm this $300. YES you must receive the =
delivery within two working day, after you have send the $300. =

I will like you to co-operate with me to retrieve this legacy payment left=
behind than allowing the government of this country to forfeit it. I belie=
ved it is a life time opportunity which every reasonable human-being will n=
ever allow to slip by. We do business each day with an absolute commitment =
to ethics, honesty and credibility.
=

EMAIL: ( johnsontimothynew@yahoo.com AND barr_tonyjohnson@legislator.co=
m )
=

Am waiting for your urgent response.
Mr. Johnson Timothy / Barr Tony Johnson
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
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