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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: "Ic3 complaint center" <admin@dealer.com>
Reply-To: ic3_desk@ic3.co.ke
Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 09:21:27 -0700
Subject: Lost funds compensation

Internet Crimes Complaint Center
Counter-terrorism Division and Cyber Crime Division
16 Court Road Central Ave, Nairobi Kenya,

Attention Beneficiary,

I am Mr. Amos Joshua Director in charge of the compensation funds to scam victims from the Internet Crimes Complaint Center (IC3) African Region. It may interest you to know that reports have reached our office by so many correspondence uneasy way, that is why IC3 was appointed to monitor your transaction.

After proper and several investigations and research at Western Union and Money Gram Office, we found your name in Western Union database through Western Union to Nigeria, Benin republic and other countries. Right now we are working hand in hand with them to track Every fraudsters down, do not respond to their e-mails, letters and phone calls any more as they are scammers and you should be very careful to avoid being a victim to fraudsters any longer because they have nothing to offer you but to rip-off what you have worked earnestly hard to earn.

Receive the payment, commitment of this new Governmental policy against cyber crime to ensure that every outstanding beneficiaries are totally disinfected, despite all their effort made last year to ensure that the most foreign beneficiaries receive their payment, record still show a lot of foreign beneficiaries did not receive their payment due to their inability to settle some outstanding up-front obligation needed by the Monetary Body.

Therefore, in other to compensate the scam victims, the U.N Body in conjunction with the Kenyan Government and IC3 from Counter-terrorism Division Nairobi is now paying 150 victims $287,000 USD each.

Get back to me ASAP for further directives;

Best Regards,
Amos Joshua, Director In Charge,
Internet Crimes Complaint Center (IC3)

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