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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: Maximus Danga <"www."@cap.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: Maximus Danga <maximusdanga@onet.pl>
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 05:33:31 +0900 (JST)
Subject:

Africa Department of the Treasury
48 Av. Usuma St, Maitama,
Abuja, Nigeria

This is to bring to your notice that the U.S.A Government in affiliation with the Office of World Foreign Assets Control ("WOFAC") has authorized the Nigeria Government and other African countries in Sanction Programs to compensate 10,000 scam victims, those who have been victims of various scams that lost money on unsuccessful local and foreign contracts and transactions. Each victim will be paid $2,500.000.00. USD (Two Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) in order to restore the global economy to the enviable standard of respectability.

Your particulars were obtained from one of the syndicates who were arrested by the security operatives. The arrested syndicate testified that there are other criminals and embezzlers of people's hard earned funds which the US SECRET SERVICE are working tirelessly to track them down. Therefore, you are hereby warned not to communicate or duplicate this message to him or her for any reason whatsoever.

This information should remain confidential till they are all apprehended and dealt with accordingly; other scam victims who have not been contacted can submit their application as well for scrutiny and possibly listed for compensation too. You should contact Dr.Ghassan Umarou
ghumarou@post.com
ghumarou@hotmail.com
+229-6256-6379

Best Regards,
Mr. Maximus Danga
Secretary of the Treasury.
Abuja, Nigeria

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