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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: "Mrs. Monica Surh" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <ibrahimlamorde492@yahoo.com.au>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 16:57:06 -0200
Subject: BANK ALERT

70th United Nations Summit/
Africa Agenda, Nov 2015,
Lagos-Nigeria.

Dear Customer,

The information contained in this message is confidential and solely intended for the individual or entity to whom it is addressed, or authorized to receive it.

We wish to inform you, that we had officially gotten an alert signal from all online banks in the world after the summit meeting of both bodies, the Africa Union Government and the United Nations Government in regards to the ongoing compensation program and along the line, we find your account eligible to receive the sum of $10.600, 000.00 (Ten Million Six Hundred Thousand Dollars only) as this is one of the key agenda of the summit to buy back every affected victims, who had one way or the other had their fund had been delayed in transferring into your personal account as a result of the recent world economic and financial crisis.

To facilitate this procedure, please kindly reconfirm your contact details again to enable us effect your transfer immediately without any further delay.

Note that, as soon as we hear from you, we shall commence loading and transfer of your fund via Electronic/inter-switch (Master Express Credit Card), which was initiated and constituted by the World Bank and Paris Club, to frustrate all fraudulent activities going on worldwide.

Information’s that will be needed for Security reasons are follows,

1) YOUR FULL NAMES
2) YOUR RECEIVING ADDRESS.
3) YOUR TELEPHONE NUMBER
4) YOUR PROFESSION
5) SEX
6) AGE
7) COUNTRY

Awaiting your quick response, as you contact the paying Bank for the release of the fund,

Dr.Frank Macdee.

Email:ibrahimlamorde492@yahoo.com.au

CONGRATULATIONS IN ADVANCE!!!

Thank you,

Mrs. Monica Surh
Chief Account/Credit Auditor

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