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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.Judith Compola;; mrsjudithc91@barid.com" <jnnmmcbmnm@aol.fr>
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 10:24:40 -0400
Subject: Contact me here; mrsjudithc91@barid.com



Contactme here; mrsjudithc91@barid.com


Goodday,

Hope all is well with you and your family.

I am Mrs.Judith Compola, Accountant byprofession, I'm 34yrs old, working at the office of Auditing and accountingDepartment of Africa Development Bank (ADB).I is married with 1 Kid. Myresidence address no: 18 avenue de la Charles Degaulle sect: 21. Box Postal: 01BP 5256 Ouagadougou Burkina Faso. I want you to handle this businesstransaction with me if chance to do international business.

I got your mail from Google search. We areimposition to reclaim and inherit the sum of (US$5.5Millions Dollar’s) withoutany trouble, from a dormant account which remains unclaimed since 11 years theowner died. This is a U.S Dollar’s account and the beneficiary died withouttrace of his family to claim the fund and no next of kin. I want you to standas his business associate and I will guild you without any risk involve.

If interested to do this business with mewithout betray contact me through my private email address mrsjudithc91@barid.com with your full details as bellow, I will immediatelygive you more
details of the transfer.

(1) Full Name:.............................................
(2) Country:.......................................................
(3) Direct Telephone Number:...............................................
(4) Age: ...................................................................
(5) Occupation and Position:...............................................
(6) Marriage Status:.......................................................
(7) Gender:................................................................

Best Regard,
Mrs.Judith Compola,
E-mail Address: mrsjudithc91@barid.com
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Am waiting for your urgent reply so that we willstarts immediately, Sorry if you received this letter in your spam, Due torecent connection error here in my country. May Almighty God Bless You!

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