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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: "Ekpo Nta" <info@transco.mn>
Reply-To: e.ayoola.hon@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 05:27:38 +0100
Subject: Re:PAYMENT RECEIPT



This is Chairman. Mr Ekpo Nta of ICPC Nigeria.(Independent Corrupt Practice=
Commission, ICPC) in alliance with the Economic Community of West African =
States (ECOWAS), with their Head Office here in Nigeria has been working to=
wards the total eradication of fraudsters and scam in here in Nigeria With =
the help of the United States Government. We have been able to track down s=
o many of this scammers in various parts of (NIGERIA) and they are all in o=
ur custody here in Lagos Nigeria, meanwhile during the process of arrest, W=
e were able to recover some funds from the prosecuted scammer. With this gr=
eat achievement, this Anti-crime commission and the United State Government=
/Federal Government Of Nigeria have ordered that the money recovered from t=
hese Scammers be shared among 100 people whom there email appear in the lis=
t with Commission. This email is directed to you because your email address=
was found in one of the file and computer hard disk recovered from the pro=
secuted scammers there in our custody. You are therefore being compensated =
with the sum of $5Million Dollars. We have also arrested all those who clai=
med to be Barristers, Bank Officials, Lottery Agents, Person or group of Pe=
rson's who claim to have funds in their custody that belonged to you or wan=
t you to be the Next of kin of such funds which do not exist ,Since your em=
ail appeared among the lucky Beneficiaries who will receive a compensation =
of $5Million Dollars, which we have arranged all payment to be made to you =
through Swift Card.(ATM).Delivery Please do feel free to direct your email =
back with required information to person in charged of ATM Program/Delivery=
from ZENITH BANK PLC, the swift card has been specially prepared to enable=
you withdraw your money in any ATM machine in any part of the world, but t=
he maximum is Five Thousand Dollars Only per day, due to security reasons, =
so you are therefore advised to direct all your mails to me with the requir=
ed information as stated below. Mr Ekpo Nta TEL: (+234 802 096 7661) EMAIL:=
(e.nta@aol.com) You are advice to forward the information bellow to enable=
us prepare your ATM Card including your Pin for easy accessibility. Your F=
ull Name_______________________ Your Address________________________ P.O.BO=
X_________________________________ Country__________________________ Teleph=
one Number________________________ Mobile Number_________________ Fax Numbe=
r______________________________ Occupation________________________ Marital =
Status_______________________ Age_________Sex_____________ Officially Sign.=
Mr Ekpo Nta Chairman ICPC Nigeria. (Independent Corrupt Practice Commissio=
n, (ICPC) -----------------------------------------------------------------=
--- If you have received this communication in error, please notify ICPC im=
mediately by replying to this message.

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