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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 Greg Harry T <"ww.12345.www."@tune.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: ibankplc_bj@yeah.net
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 20:31:32 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Sorry to hear that you are dead ,please accept my sympathy!!!

Are you alive of dead?
We received a shocking message from Mr Bryan who
came to the office this morning and complain that you died
last week in the crises that took the life of many while you are trying to escape,and he was one of the family member/(next of kin) who was sent to claim the money owing to you by this country,
although we felt very bad about this incident and we have sent him a
dead warrant code which is dwc/LCB.CTN /010/ctnbn/12 to ensure that your fund
is duly approved to him but we have not signed any signatory stamp in it because we need to be very sure,although he is begging to pay any amount of charge that your fund must have accumulated, he also showed us a cash amount with him just to show his readiness to this approval,the reason for his request to the urgent approval of your fund to him is that he complained that there is no money in the family purse to take care of your burial as this $10.5million was the only money belonging to you that they can trace but we have told him to hold on until we write and confirm from at least
3 members of the family before approval to give your inheritance to your
relation,but he was telling us with all assurance that even if we write a thousand emails to you or confirm from every member of your family that it will not bring you back to life because you have died and gone forever with a heavy tears in his eyes.


We want to express our deep feeling by sympathizing with the family for this
sad news,we will be very happy to hear from whoever that will read this
email to confirm if it is true or not,

We will not forget to explain that the owner of this email address have not shown up either by email or telephone calls for a very long time,so we
are confused whether the story is true or false.

If we confirm it then we can go ahead to implement on his request as he told
us vividly that he is with any amount of money that will cover the fee so
that his relation's fund will be used for his burial come next two weeks.
All we need from whoever that reads this email is your full names,full contact
address,a working telephone number,your country and your two passport
photograph, a change of ownership agreement.
We have promised your next of kin that we will not disappoint him only if we find out that really you are DEAD and your fund must be paid off in this new
month because we are very reliable in our service and any promise made must be
kept but not until we hear from you.
But if you have found this news to be one of this internet scam artist ,you should report immediately .

Waiting to hear from you
DR,GREG HARRY T
E-Mail:ibankplc_bj@yeah.net


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