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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: "Mr. Rodolfo Palacios" <megsystems@gmail.com>
Reply-To: rodolfo.palacios@53rd-teledept.us
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 13:05:18 +0100
Subject: Final Notice!!!



Good Day Sir,

*Re: Payment Notification value sum of $10,500,000.00*


I was winding up the process of sending your fund ($10,500,000.00) to the
appropriate authority for confiscation when our Director of legal affairs
brought to my attention that you have been granted a further and final
additional one week extension which will then expire next Monday September
25t 2017.

As far as I am concern, there is no justification whatsoever why this
extension was given to you because you have failed in all the previous
extensions and therefore has showed no honorability in your integrity and
credibility. There is no gain saying the fact that your actions and
precedents are highly condemnable, frustrating and tragic, but despite all
these negative antecedent of yours, the board once again given you one more
last and final chance for the settlement of the required fee.

Consequently, I do hope you will use this last and great extension
opportunity given to you to prove to the entire board that you are indeed
an honorable man. Be rest assured that failure to meet up with this last
extension; will automatically result to the confiscation of your fund and
the attached document will be forwarded to the U.S. Government for
notification. The ball is now in your court and the decision is yours
either to kiss your fund goodbye.

Do notify me that you have received this email.

Thanks for your understanding and anticipated co-operation.

*Best Regards, *
*Mr. Rodolfo Stephen Palacios*
*Head, Business Banking Dept.*
*Fifth Third Bank*
*Phone: +1(313)556-1365*

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