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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: PHILCOM-TERRITORIAL COMMAND <united.nations.ofice2016@outlook.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 13:54:01 +0000
Subject: PHILCOM-TERRITORIAL COMMAND


Today at 6:06 AMNTERPOL Philipines CommandINTERNATIONAL POLICE COMMISSIONPHILCOM-TERRITORIAL COMMANDMIDDLE EASTPolice DepartmentAddress: Laura Drive Bagumbayan Taguig City,Province of RizalPhilipines.Attn,
We wish to congratulate you on our successful recovery of your fund from swindlers,We received a Fraud signal and report from Our high-tech infrastructure of technical and operational support that helps us meet the growing challenges of fighting crime in the 21st century about innocent people's Fund pending in Some Banks in Asia. after our real-time and pain-staking investigation; we found out that your name was used to transfer and deposit the Sum of $36,000,000.00 into Banco de Oro We are contacting you because your name and email address was used to deposit the fund with the bank so We have already informed the bank that the real beneficiary of the fund will be in-touch after our investigation, please we advice that you contact the bank and request for all the documents and information of the account so that the bank will set-up online account and start remitting your accumulated interest of the fund since the fund was transferred to the bank as investment fund through undisclosed broker.We are waiting for your urgent confirmation of this important message before we will give you the full details and contact of the bank to open communicationsGeneral Robert S. BiazonINTERPOL PresidentPhilipines.

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