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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: "OFFICE OF THE PERMANENT SECRETARY" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <olawalejamie@mail.ua>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 06:06:18 -0500
Subject: READ AND GET BACK TO ME TODAY

FROM THE OFFICE OF THE PERMANENT SECRETARY:
MINISTRY OF FINANCE NIGERIA
ADDRESS:GARIKI ABUJA NIGERIA

My name is Mr. OLAWALE JAMIE, this Ministry has a mandate to recover unpaid debts associated with contracts, compensation fund, Lottery fund, fake dating, Inheritance fund, Loans and Grants ETC ranging from $1M-$19.5M owed to various beneficiaries and companies across the Globe (Asia, Europe, USA, Africa) our online monitoring fraud unit submitted the unpaid list of beneficiaries/companies to the official paying Bank for immediate payment of the fund. This is reason why you are
being contacted today.

We have gone through the security manifest booklet of all international outstanding transactions and our extensive investigation confirmed that you are the original owner of this fund. Therefore, we wish to inform you again that we are now making arrangements from our department to process and pay the total sum of $9.5 MILLION USD to you immediately you provide the requirements needed for the processing of this payment, It is very important we state that your international transactions will never be released if you ignore this message and you are therefore advised to kindly acknowledge the content of this message by working with me .

However, we received a petition today from your relation/representative, letting us know that you are dead and such your fund should be paid into her bank account.
To avoid undue delay or paying the fund to wrong individual/beneficiary, I have decided to contact you for confirmation If I fail to hear from you after 72 hours, it will be assumed that the petition of Mrs. ROSE RIGTERS is true and the fund will be paid to her without further delay.
Reply :::::olawalejamie@mail.ua.
Mr. OLAWALE JAMIE
PERMANENT SECRETARY:
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