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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: "Dr.Otunba Ademola" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <cebplc1@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 15:22:51 -0800
Subject: Rejoice

“X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - ns1.realsunucu.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - hsredesign.com X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - aralteknik.com.tr X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: ns1.realsunucu.com: authenticated_id: aralteknik@aralteknik.com.tr X-Spamfilter-host: pascal.junkemailfilter.com - http://www.junkemailfilter.com X-Key-ID: Z2F5bGVAaHNyZWRlc2lnbi5jb20gYXJhbHRla25pa0BhcmFsdGVrbmlrLmNvbS50ciAyMDE3LTAzLTA3IDE1OjIzOjQ5IDFjbE9TSy0wMDA2Y2MtUGY= X-Freemail-From: aralteknik.com.tr X-Freemail-Reply-to: gmail.com X-Content-flags: africa america atm-card bank-of banking beneficiary best big-nums contact details fund immediately law legal lotsofmoney money payment please president regards reply2me thankyou time-ref verify X-Domain-list: fiberserver.com fibersunucu.com.tr realsunucu.com daynex.com.tr aralteknik.com.tr dbchosting.net hsredesign.com gmail.com google.com X-Mail-from: aralteknik@aralteknik.com.tr X-Spam-Class: SPAM-HIGH-VERY - Sender Address Domain [aralteknik.com.tr] blacklisted blacklist hostkarma.junkemailfilter.com - X=pascal H=[217.195.198.49] HELO=[ns1.realsunucu.com] SN=[aralteknik@aralteknik.com.tr] T=[gayle@hsredesign.com] S=[Rejoice] X-Spamsave: Yes - Sender Address Domain [aralteknik.com.tr] blacklisted blacklist hostkarma.junkemailfilter.com - X=pascal H=[217.195.198.49] HELO=[ns1.realsunucu.com] SN=[aralteknik@aralteknik.com.tr] T=[gayle@hsredesign.com] S=[Rejoice] X-Sender-Host-Address: 217.195.198.49 X-Sender-Host-Name: X-Spam-Flag: yes X-Key-ID: c3BhbS1mZWVkQGp1bmtlbWFpbGZpbHRlci5jb20gIDIwMTctMDMtMDcgMTU6MjQ6MTMgMWNsT1NqLTAwMDVtdy1ESw== X-Delivered-To: spam-feed@junkemailfilter.com ” City Express Bank ATM CARD Fom: Dr.Otunba Ademola Remittance Manager City Express Bank Of Nigeria. Attention:Beneficiary : This is to officially inform you that we have verified your contract file presently on my desk, and I found out that you have not received your payment of $13million (thirteen million united state dollar) due to your lack of co-operation and not fulfilling the obligations giving to you in respect to your contract payment. Secondly, you are hereby advice to stop dealing with some non-officials in the bank as this is an illegal act and will have to stop if you so wish to receive your payment immediately. After the board meeting held at our headquarters, we have resolved in finding a solution to your problem, and as you may know, we have arranged your payment through our SWIFT CARD PAYMENT CENTER in Europe, America,Africa and Asia Pacific, which is the instruction given by our new president General Mohammad Buhari(GCFR) Federal Republic of Nigeria. This card centre will send you an ATM CARD which you will use to withdraw your money in an ATM MACHINE in any part of the world, but the maximum is ($15,000.00) Thousand Us Dollars per transaction. So, if you like to receive your fund this way,reply to this office immidietly for the issuing of your (ATM)CARD. (1) Your Full Name (2) Address where you want the payment centre to send your ATM CARD. (3) Phone And Fax Number We shall be expecting to receive your information, you have to stop any further communication with anybody or office apart from this office of the presidency. On this regards, do not hesitate to contact me for more details and direction, and also please do update me with any new development. Thanks for your co-operation. Best Regards, Dr. Otunba Ademola City Express Bank Of Nigeria. Note: Because of impostors, we hereby issue you with our code of conduct, which is (007) so you have to indicate this code when contacting or emailing this CARD CENTRE.Dr. Otunba Ademola

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