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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: " Dr. Drake Adams "
Reply-To: <williamfrost@163.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2015 03:03:00 +0100
Subject: Your Funds Approval... Urgent Response Required.

Dear beneficiary ,

I Write in to apologize for the delayed response which was as a result of the yet to be received release of your due funds.

After exhaustive investigations , some culprits have been arrested as a result of the delay in releasing your funds.
Mr ola Daniels, Mrs Sarah james and some other officials have been arrested.

The likes of Mr Richard Corner, Jessica Brown, Ali Moudu and 17 more internet fraudsters are all been track down by the law enforcements agents. There is an arrest warrant to this effects.

Their offices were searched and incriminating documents were found in their offices. I need you to stop every form of contacts with this persons as records shows that they have been corrupt officials who have rob and stole people like you of your hard earn money. Kindly help us with any useful information that can lead to the arrest of this crooks.

Meanwhile, you are hereby informed that the modality to pay to you your money have been fine tuned to avoid the usual bureaucracy and bottlenecks encountered in time past in the cause of the receipt of your money.

Following from the above, a workable arrangement have been put in place that will enable the payment of beneficiary (ies) sum via an affiliate financial institution clearing house in the United States of America (USA).


What the above implies is that your money , $1.7m will now be paid through a local United States paying financial institution, and under the close supervision of the Tennessee office of the Federal Reserve Bank (FRB) to your private account under the close supervision of an appointed world bank consultant.

Therefore, find herein in this letter is the contact of the appointed world bank consultant to enable you open communication with him immediately and inquire from him the modality to receive your money through the Federal Reserve Bank in the USA.


Contact info:
Consultant name: William Frost, Jr.
E-mail: williamfrost@163.com

Endeavor to open communication with the a fore named individual upon receipt of this letter in order to have this matter done with ASAP. Note: On opening communication with the world bank consultant, then will you be availed with detail information on your transaction and other information as may be needed to conclude it.


Wait to hear from you, and thank you in advance in anticipation of your valued co-operation.
Sincerely,
Drake Adams

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