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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: "Mrs. Monalisa Elvis" <info@decem.com>
Reply-To: <compensationhouse98@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2016 11:47:58 -0800
Subject: CONTACT THE COMPENSATION AWARD HOUSE

Good Day,

I am Mrs. Monalisa Elvis, I am a US citizen, am 33 years Old. I reside here in Gainesville. My residential address is as follows. 6909 Sw 33rd Pl, Gainesville, Florida

32608-2112, United Statess, am thinking of relocating since I am now rich. I am one of those that took part in the Compensation in Nigeria many years ago and they

refused to pay me, I had paid over $130,950USD while in the United States trying to get my payment all to no avail.

I decided to travel down to Lagos, Nigeria with all my compensation documents and i was directed to meet the attonery who is the member of COMPENSATION AWARD

COMMITTEE, I contacted him and he explained everything to me. He said whoever is contacting us through emails are fake because the Inheritance/Compensation Law clearly

states that the beneficiary/recipient is exempt from paying any out of pocket fees or charges to receive said funds.

The attonery took me to the paying bank for the claim of my Compensation payment. Right now I am the most happiest woman on earth because I have received my

compensation funds of $10,500,000.00 (Ten million five hundred thousand dollars). Moreover, Attoenry showed me the full information of those that are yet to receive

their payments and I saw your name and email address as one of the beneficiaries that is why I decided to email you to stop dealing with those people, they are not

with your funds, they are only making money out of you, they are only taking advantage of you and they will dry you up until you have nothing. The only money I paid

after I met Ben Mark was just $415USD for the delivery charges, take note of that.

I will advise you to contact My attonery now with his information below:

COMPENSATION AWARD HOUSE

Name: Ben Mark
Email: compensationhouse98@gmail.com

( NOTE: I REPEAT THE ONLY MONEY YOU WILL HAVE TO PAY AND WHICH I ALSO PAID IS $415USD FOR THE DELIVERY CHARGES IMPOSED BY THE GOVERNMENT AND YOUR PACKAGE CONTAINING

YOUR CERTIFIED BANK DRAFT CHEQUE WILL BE REACHING YOU THROUGH THE ROYAL EXPRESS COURIER SERVICE.)

Once again stop contacting those people, I will advise you to contact Ben Mark so that he can help you to Deliver your funds instead of dealing with those liars that

will be turning you around asking for different kind of money to complete your transaction.

Thank You and Remain Blessed.
Mrs. Monalisa Elvis

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