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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. Father Obi" <madikizelamrswinnie@gmail.com>
Reply-To: fatherobifromroman@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 03:35:46 -0700
Subject: FROM ROMAN CATHOLIC PARISH CHURCH

attention sir,

my name is father obi, the G.O of Roman Catholic church, ST. LEO in
Ikeja Allen Avenue, i am the chairman of charity organization in
festac avenue in block 121. my purpose of writing this email to you is
to help me confidentially move this 50 million dollars i deposited on
behalf of my name in charity organization, this money was deposited in
the year 2009, one senator prince uche deposited this money on behalf
of charity organization since then this money was deposited in diamond
bank, in 2016 when we have change, i recover that this money that was
deposited in diamond bank is for the government, and the woman in
charge in diamond bank called me yesterday and she said that i have
to move the money out because the federaal government wants to seize
the money, i am a local man, i dont know anyone outside the country
and i dont have any account outside the country that is why i called
you to come in as a beneficiary so that i can move the money, frankly
speaking i am a nigerian, though nigerians are called bad names
because of corruption, nobody in outside country will want to transact
with any nigerian because of corruption and scammers, i was called by
God in the year 2008 but i want to let you know because you may feel
that this is not a live story but my brother this is a live story, i
prefer to invest this money in charity organization in outside country
than leave it wtith the government for them to waste it, if you are
interested, feel free to write me back, as soon as you agree to work
with me, i will give you the bank contacts, this is what i required
from you to know who i am dealing with,

your telephone number
your fax number\
house address,
your passport
your company's or business name
more details will be given to you as soon as i hear from you
Dr. Father Obi from Roman Catholic Church
number: 08127259177

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