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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: La-caixa Bank madrid spain <creditonlinebankspain@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2017 00:52:21 -0700
Subject: PAYMENT INSTRUCTION

Dear Friend,

I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting the fund
transferred under the cooperation of a new partner from Paraguay.
Presently I'm in Paraguay for investment projects with my own share of
the total sum.meanwhile,I didn't forget your past efforts and attempts
to assist me in transferring those funds despite that it failed us
some how. Now contact my secretary,his name and contact information's
are:

NAME: MR. JOHN BROWN
TELEPHONE#: +234-7085483605
EMAIL: johnbrown852@ymail.com


Kindly reconfirm to him the following below information:
Your full name_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Your address_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Your country_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Your age_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Your occupation_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Your Phone number_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Ask him to send you the total $USD 1.5 million which I kept for your
compensation for all the past efforts and attempts to assist me in
this matter. I appreciated your efforts at that time very much. so
feel free and get in touched with my secretary MR. WILSON DAVID and
instruct him where to send the amount to you.

Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share
the joy after all the suffers at that time. in the moment, am very
busy here because of the investment projects which me and the new
partner are having at hand, finally, remember that I have forwarded
instruction to the secretary on your behalf to receive that money, so
feel free to get in touch with MR. JOHN BROWN and he will send the
amount to you without any
delay.

with best regards,
Robert Peter.

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