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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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Fraud email example:

From: UNPOICE <info@unpolice.org>
Reply-To: <dobsonjames112@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 21:53:22 -0500
Subject: UNITED POLICE HEADQUARTERS

FROM: UNITED NATIONS POLICE,
REGARDING RECOVERY OF YOUR LOST MONEY.
 
 
 
Attn: Beneficiary
 
 
We hereby inform you that the Scotland Yard Police, Interpol, Federal Bureau of
 
Investigation, (FBI) United States of America, INTERPOL Sofia of Bulgaria
 
and all the African Crime  fighter leaders have come together to stop scam/internet fraud in
 
Europe and all round World. We have recovered over US$2.6 Billion Dollars from  the people
 
we have behind bars.
 
 
Our duty is to make sure we stop internet scam and money laundering. As  for today we have
 
put a lot of fraudsters in jail. We go all over world to pick this internet rats,We have over 8,273
 
of them in our jail around the world and we are still looking for more. We are aware that a lot
 
of foreigners out there have been deceived and lost their hard earn  money to these
 
fraudsters after promising them percentages in their letters/e-mails for their impending help
 
to move funds out of Europe including fake lottery winning notification and at the end of the day,  they will collect thousands of dollars from you without a successful end. It was agreed that to retain the good image of our country and the rest of  European countries, all the victims who lost his/her hard earn money to these faceless thieves will be compensated with just US$500,000,00 (five hundred thousand Dollars).
 
 
This we assume will help you to start a new life.  Please, we apologies that you take our offer
 
as little as it is due to the fact that (victims) in our pay list are too numerous. We en-back on
 
this pay back from the money we recovered from these fraudsters, So you are advise to
 
contact Mr. Dobson James in Bulgaria.
 
 
let him know if you are still interested to get your Master Card to you today as he have been
 
waiting to hear from you to help him complete this delivery to you. contact him with your
 
personal information bellow for your Master Card clearance and delivery.
 
 
Provide your details and forward it to Mr. Dobson James to is contact details below
 
 
 
 
FULL NAME...
 
ADDRESS....
 
COUNTRY....
 
PHONE NUMBER...
 
AGE....
 
 
 
 
Agent Name: Mr. Dobson James
Address Email: dobsonjames112@gmail.com
 
 
 
 
Thank and remain Bless
 
Mr. Michael J. Burn.
Supervising Manager

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