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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: "FUND RECOVERY DEPARTMENT." (may be fake)
Reply-To: <james.godwin4@aol.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 05:32:00 -0400
Subject: GOOD NEWS TO YOU!!!

ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRIMES COMMISSION
NIGERIA INVESTIGATION BUREAU (EFCC)
No5 FOMELLA STREET,OFF ADETOKUNB0 ADEMOLA CRESCENT
WUSE II ABUJA.
Tel: +234-0838232641

Attn: Beneficiary,

I am Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde the chairman of ECONOMIC & FINANCIAL CRIME COMMISSION

(EFCC). EFCC in alliance with economic community of West African states

(ECOWAS) with head Office here in Nigeria. We have been working towards the

eradication of fraudsters and scam Artists in Western part of Africa With the

help of United States Government and the United Nations.

We have been able to track down so many of this scam artist in various parts

of west African countries which includes (NIGERIA, REPUBLIC OF BENIN, TOGO,

GHANA CAMEROUN AND SENEGAL) and they are all in our custody here in Lagos

Nigeria.
We have been able to recover so much money from these scam artists. The United

Nation Anti-crime commission and the United State Government have ordered the

money recovered from the Scammers to be shared among 100 Lucky people around

the globe.

This email is being directed to you because your email address was found in

one of the scam Artists file and computer hard disk in our custody here in

Nigeria and with the information gartered from this Scam artist, we notice

that you have been scammed of so much money and have decided to compensate you

with a little token to recover the lost of your fund. You are therefore being

compensated with the total sum $2.5 Million Dollars. We have also arrested all

those who claim that they are barristers, bank officials, Lottery Agents who

has money for transfer or want you to be the next of kin of such funds which

does not exist.

Since your name appeared among the lucky beneficiaries who will receive a

compensation of US$2.5 Million, we have made arrangement to register an Online

Banking through our Global Bank, where you will have full access to your

Online Banking Account Fund, to transfer your fund personally to your Private

Bank Account with no complication of things or questioning as the Account will

be fully registered in your Name.

Feel free to contact the processing officer MR JAMES GODWIN. The online

Banking Processing is made much easier for you to transfer your fund to your

private Bank Account personally, to avoid any delay or complication of things.

With this Online Banking Transfer Processing, you can only transfer the

Maximum Amount of US$500.000.00 daily/install mentally until the total amount

of your Compensated/deposited fund is transferred and completely paid to you.

So you are advice to contact, processing officer MR JAMES GODWIN with your

provided information’s required for verification below.

CONTACT PERSON: MR JAMES GODWIN
CONTACT EMAIL ADDRESS: james.godwin4@aol.com
CONTACT TELEPHONE: +234-0838232641

Provide the information below to enable the processing of your Online Banking

Account for deposition of your total compensated fund.

1) YOUR FULL NAME.
2) YOUR ADDRESS.
3)YOUR TELEPHONE NUMBER.
4) YOUR OCCUPATION
5) YOUR IDENTITY.
6) COUNTRY

Contact MR JAMES GODWIN with the information required for verification to

enable him start the processing of your Online Banking Account Registration.

We guarantee your safety and wish you the best of luck.

Best Regard,
Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde
CHAIRMAN ECONOMIC & FINANCIAL CRIME COMMISSION
(EFCC) FOREIGN OPERATIONS DEPT,
LAGOS-NIGERIA

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