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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: "Rev. M. Adams" <morenike1920@gmail.com>
Reply-To: morenike1920@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 20:58:42 +0100
Subject: RE: NOTIFICATION OF DEPOSITED CONSIGNMENT/ URGENT

My dear,

Good day to you. We have something valuable belonging to you by legal change of ownership. We are diplomatic firm that arrange for the safekeeping of special and valuable packages in trust for reputable clients that are honest and trustworthy. We work in collaboration with top firms and governments of various countries as we have earned a good reputation as a service who guarantees reliability and confidence. International missions, and embassies of the world have used our diplomatic services to satisfaction.

A depositor whose identity cannot be disclosed at the moment to you because of the legal circumvention and non-disclosure agreement signed when the consignment were deposited with us made you the beneficiary of the said valuable. By the documents of deposit listing what is contained, money and gold were listed. It was stated clearly that you should only be contacted when the time signed for it to be in our care elapses or at the demise of the depositor. At this moment we are contacting you, the time signed has elapsed so you are due for ownership.

Furthermore, the legal circumvention and non-disclosure agreement signed with the benefactor mandated us to ONLY fully divulge and disclose the depositor’s identity 18 months after you have received the deposited consignment. The total value in cash and gold jewelries declared on point of acceptance of consignment is $10.8m (ten million, eight hundred thousand dollars). To further on the conditions of claims, you will need to reconfirm your full contact information so we can very that it corresponds exactly as contained in our computer database. So kindly reconfirm the below:-

Your full name (with middle name please): ___
Your complete address (not p. o . box): ___
Name of city of residence: ____
Name of closest airport to city of residence: ____
Direct telephone number: ____
Mobile number: ____

Basically, our duty is mostly, to carry documents for embassies between countries without inspection, as diplomats do not necessarily run consignment delivery service which we may end up doing for you. We agreed to safe-keep yours and then deliver it too because recently, our reputation has soared. So we have more free accesses into countries and across borders without security checks/inspection at borders and airports. But on normal circumstances, what we do is only government job and document deliveries for embassies and consignment “safe-keeping only”.

Get back to us whenever necessary.

Best regards,
Rev. Morenike Adams,
Ifesinachi Services
West Africa

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