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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: "Special Adviser to the President" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <bhillsleyt@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2016 22:18:29 +0200
Subject: Re: The release of your $28Million(including interest).

 
Attention,
        Re: The release of your $28Million(including interest).
You have been listed by the Federal Government of Nigeria among the people they are owing that
could not claim their contract funds. After proper verification of your payment we found out
that you are the caused of your problem, we discovered that the only reason why you have not
receive your funds since is because you have refused to sign the original contract agreement
documents of your payment which is against our law to pay a contractor without signing any legal
contractual agreement documents and there is know way you will receive Millions of Dollars
without signing any original documents with the Ministry that awarded this contract to you.
 
Please stop blaming Nigeria Government for not releasing your funds because you are the cause of
your problem. Can your own company award a contract to somebody without signing any contract
documents with the person?.
The criminals you have been communicating with since was only aware that you have some payment
to receive and they use the opportunity to be asking you for money. Again, if this funds is
transferred to your account which documents do you have to present to your bank as a backup
documents for the source of your payment? Please know that your bank will confiscate your funds
if you do not have any documents to show for the source of your payment.
A paying bank has been mandated to pay you your long over due funds of Twenty Eight Million
Dollars ($28Million including interest) has been approved for you which will be credited into
your account within 48hours after signing this your contract documents. Stop any communication
with anybody you are contacting in any part of the world because you are only wasting your time
with them because nobody can release your funds while you have not sign this documents.
To enable us send this contract documents to you by DHL or Fedex we need the followings so that
it can be process immediately.
1. Your name, address and phone number to send the documents to
2. Your bank account information to wire your funds to.
Yours faithfully,
Dr. Ola Ahmed
Special Adviser to the President
On Foreign Payment.

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