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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: "Attorney Ndubisi Okei" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <attorneyokei121@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 01:29:42 +0100
Subject: TREAT AS URGENT

Good news,


I am Attorney Ndubisi Okei


Benson.(SAN) The Legal attorney to the approved paying Bank as directed by the office of the Presidency/UN after a joint meeting with the CBN,I wish to inform you that the paying
Bank has processed your approved fund Atm Card as instructed to ensure smooth transaction considering what it has cause you in the past trying to receive your FUND in the hands of those impostors but to NO avail hence i contacted you.

Upon the above information,I have collected your ATM CARD now on your behalf as the legal attorney to the Bank and all that is required of you is to come down for the pick up or should I send it to you via courier ??? Meanwhile,The Bank told me that they will send you the PIN- CODE NUMBER
directly for security reasons and also told me that you can only withdraw $10,000.00 daily from this Card for years because they credited the sum of $6 Million inside this Card.

I look forward to hear from you soonest to enable me give you the Bank data for your ATM CARD PIN-CODE NUMBER.

Thanks,

Attorney Ndubisi Okei.

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