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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. Angler James" <"www."@eos.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: "Mrs. Angler James" <b_of_a@outlook.com>
Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 05:23:30 +0900 (JST)
Subject: She is here to Claim your Fund of $4.500,000 USD

Good day,

How are you today? A Lady called ( Rose Jackson ) contacted This Office Today to Claim your Fund of $4.500,000 USD in this Bank Of Africa, she sated that she is your younger Sister, she told us that you have given her permission to Claim Your Fund so she can takes care of you because you have an accident, and here is the address she provided to us,

Address: 195 Spring Hollow Ct. Roswell, GA 30075

I will like to know and to confirm if you are the one that gave her the power of claim, if yes,kindly provide a letter of claim from a chief judge or from a reputable attorney in your country before This Office can release your Fund of $4.500,000 USD to her, if no, you are to quickly inform this office to avoid wrongful Transfer, here is our new.

And she even say that she will pay for the needed fees of 98 usd, so we are still search if we can release the Fund for her or not since we cant heard from you since then until today.

But due try to response back to us so that we can give you the information on how to make this payment OF 98 usd that needed which was hold your fund since, so that your FUND will be release once we get you feed back, Be aware that if we cant heard from you till 24 hours the fund of $4.500,000 USD will be release to her as the real owner thanks.

Manager
Call me now before it will be late. +229 6123 5257

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