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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: "GEN. JOHN KELLY" <"WWW."@poem.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: "GEN. JOHN KELLY" <genjohn_kelly@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 02:54:11 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Attn;

Attn;

I'm Mr Gen John Kelly the Chief Director of home land security . We wish to urgently confirm from you if actually
you know one Mrs. Cynthia Edward who claims to be your business associate/partner. Kindly reconfirm this application put in by Mrs.
Cynthia Edward - she submitted the under listed bank account information supposedly sent by you to receive the funds on your behalf.

The bank information she applied with are stated thus:
Account Name: Edward Mike
Bank name: Citi Bank NA
Bank address: #1230 Arch Street,
Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA
Account Number: 013439887655
Routing Number: 2771722
Swift Code: CITIUS30

The said Mrs. Cynthia Edward has claimed to this office that you are dead and have Instructed that all relevant documentation /Information
regarding your Payment/Transfer, should be changed to her name as the beneficiary of the payment short listed among the foreign
beneficiaries entitled to receive their payment. For your Information, this Government has approved the total amount of fourty MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED
THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS ONLY, in your favor, prior to the Federal Government instructions/mandate to offset all outstanding payments to
the various legal foreign beneficiaries around the world and your payment file was affected. We need to confirm from you if it's
really true that you are dead as made mention by your Associate.You should note that, if we do not hear from you, we automatically
assume that you are actually dead and the information passed to us by Mrs. Cynthia Edward is correct.

Hence, you are hereby requested to reply this Email immediately for confirmation, before we proceed with this payment and for us to know the
true position of things with you so that we won't make any mistakes/errors in remitting your out-standing payment to a wrong person/account.

Lastly, you are advice to reply back this email and reconfirm the details of this message if truly you're alive contact us immediately
and bear in mind that you will pay needed renewal of your payment file fee which is sum of $450only in this office and the fees must be paid
before we will release your fund in your account today/tomorrow,

Full name.......................... ..........
Direct telephone number......................
Address....................... ...............
Age........................... ...............
Occupation.................... ...............
Country....................... ...............
Once you notify us with the above

here is my phone number (202) 798-6595) text only .

I will be waiting for your reply because we do not believe on what Mrs Cynthia Edward said
thank your
Mr Gen John Kelly

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