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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: "Sgt. Colman Boris" <ffiles212@gmail.com>
Reply-To: "Sgt. Colman Boris" <colmanboris4@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2015 02:44:58 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Reply Urgently


Attention My Dearest Lawful Beneficiary.

The Truth About Your Fund,


I
felt expedient to write and inform you on the wicked conspiracy hatched
by the duo of JUSTICE T.Y Waziri and Mr. Lanre Williams of the Ministry
of Finance and some of the Finance Ministry staff with numerous fake
names to divert your money to their designated account in Europe.

With
my position as a low clerk in this office, I discovered that they moved
the fund from Africa to London, UK and then moved it last week to Banco
Italiano in ITALY. Today I found out through the central computer
database that they are about to re-route back your fund to a security
company in USA. With this, I felt that it is important for me to alert
you on this development that the departments of homeland security USA
are holding the money for clarifications.

They
are still using your name and contract won /inheritance compensation
identification number as the beneficiary but they have changed the
account co-ordinate and this is the reason they are frustrating you by
asking for endless fees in other to buy time pending  when they will
transfer your funds to their designated account in Cayman Island.

I
have the reference number of the transaction and also I have the number
of the official who is directly in charge at the SECURITY VAULT of
department of homeland
security in USA where the funds is presently
on-hold. Your payment is supposed to go through the International
credit control financial clearing house before finally put into the
SECURITY
VAULT of department of homeland security  for clarifications.

I
repeat, please do not expose my person, it is not easy to get jobs
around here and I cannot contend with these powerful individuals because
they can eliminate me just like that.

I await  your response so urgently,

God bless you.
Sgt. Colman Boris.

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