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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: "NIGERIA DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <payout_efccng@qq.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 12:52:52 -0400
Subject: Regarding Payout

Financial Intelligence Unit
Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation,
Mamman Kontagora House
23A, Marina, P.M.B. 12881
Lagos, Nigeria.

Dear Beneficiary,
This email serves as a notification, to inform you on the deposit of compensation funds by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in the amount of 30 Million dollars, which will be disbursed between 50 scam victims, with each beneficiary to be paid out 600,000 USD.

You have been enrolled into this compensation scheme because your email address was found amongst an email database saved in a .txt format, on a computer hard drive belonging to con artists and fraudsters who were caught and are presently in the custody of the Economic and financial crimes commission (E.F.C.C), here in Nigeria. They will be facing prosecution at the end of the month.

It is for this reason that We believe you might have been defrauded in the past or even recently and as such, we intend on paying you the stipulated amount in our bid to improve the situation all around you after these scams have been perpetuated.

To enable the processing of your payment to you, Kindly send the following to the head of compensation payout operations with the EFCC, Mark Fisher at payout_efccng@qq.com

Full Name:
Phone number:

Contact Mark Fisher today with your information to enable the Head of Operations commence the processing of your payment to avoid any delay.

Signed.
Ambassador (Dr.) Hassan Adamu
Chairman,
Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation.

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