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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: "Barrister Warren McCoy" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <barristerwarrenmccoy@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2017 19:41:47 +0200
Subject: CONTACT ME FOR YOUR LONG DUE FUND.

Greetings to you,
 
Due to the fact that it has been detailed that you must have been in contact with some scammers in the past and your funds still did not arrive to you, The Authorities in collaboration with the U.S. Department of the Treasury now have made arrangement for your funds to be transferred to you properly.
 
Note, your funds worth $3.5 Million has been set for online banking transfer from the Federal reserve bank in the U.S.A.
 
All you have do now is to contact me back and i will give you proceedings to reach the bank for your online banking transfer of your long due non clam funds to you.
 
send me an email back in response as i await to give you instructions to contact the accountant in charge of your funds before its transfered from Federal reserve bank into your bank account.
 
yours sincerely
Barrister Warren Mccoy
Barrister and solicitor

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