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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: JACK <"www."@future.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: JACK <jacklew8409@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 02:12:40 +0900 (JST)
Subject: ATTENTION:


Greeting from the White House

President Donald TRUMP has pleaded with the whole world who
were scam victims in Obama's Administration.
In view of the recently concluded 2014 till date investigations and subsequent arrest of some

suspected fraudsters and scammers in some African
countries, in collaboration with the present governments of Nigeria,
Ghana, Cote d Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Benin Republic, Togo and South Africa,

The United Nations and African Union joint security operatives have so far
arrested and prosecuted over 300 government and bank officials for their involvement in various
financial scams,
and the arrest is still going on.
So far, the UN security operative has also recovered about US$5.1Billion in
both cash in accounts and properties and assets confiscated.

It is from the
address book of the arrested officials that your email address was recovered.

The United Nations(UN) and their African Union (AU) counterpart is paying compensation to the victims of
these scammers, those whose emails addresses and other personal

data were recovered from these arrested officials, especially those with verifiable information.


PRESIDENT TRUMP is doing this for the world cause of his happiness concerning the
presidential

Election that took place on (08/11/2016).
I am Dr. JACK LEW the U.S finace minister, we are
offering the sum of $ 15, 500,000.00 ( USD) each to the whole world that has been
victim of scam.


President TRUMP has assured the whole people in the world who has been a VICTIM the chance of

receiving the sum of $15, 500,000.00 ( USD). the amount will be delivered to you
through the

Speed Height Delivery Service or the DHL service or even Fedex courier service.

The office will not charge any much fees on the delivery but just the
registration fees as

noted amount is ( $200 USD ) must be paid to an agent who based in any of the affected African countries,


Once the payment is done, the tracking code will be given to you immediately.

It has been mandated to the IMF that the tax must be
accomplished latest on friday being 10th of march 2017, you required to
get back to us with your personal data,such as; your

First name :
Last name :
Address :
City :
Country :
Zip code :
Age :
Mobile number :
Occupation:
Next of kin:

Once we have the above info, then you will be give the Money Gram payment
information on

where to send the above sum before the delivery will be registered.



must do this within the next 5 banking days because we have a very limit time to get
the whole

money sent to whom so ever has complied with the massage.

Text Number: +1999758409
(Dr. jack Lew} the U.S finance minister
to president Trump.

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