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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: Ibrahim Usman Abdullah <eumfund@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2018 08:39:29 +0100
Subject: FROM: Dr. Ihrahim Usman Abdullah.

FROM: Dr. Ibrahim Usman Abdullah.

My Good Friend,

HOW ARE YOU? I am very happy to inform you about my success in getting
those funds transferred under the cooperation of a new partner from
Paraguay. Presently. I am in Brazil for an investment projects with my
own share of the fund. Meanwhile, I did not forget your past efforts
and attempts to assist me in transferring those funds despite that we
failed along the line. But still, I will never forget you and your
kind gesture for having supported me then to finalize the transaction,
even though we could not make it.

I left an activated ATM VISA CARD of $1,500,000.00 (One Million Five
Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) with my secretary as a
compensation to you and would like you to contact her immediately to
enable her send the ATM VISA CARD to you. Here is her contacts;

NAME = Ms. Favour Egobia.
EMAIL = favouregobia2002@gmail.com
PHONE = +22897601483

Contact her immediately and ask her to send you the ATM VISA CARD of
$1,500,000 I kept under her care. I am compensating you for the past
efforts and attempts you made to assist me in this matter. I sincerely
appreciate all your efforts as at that time and asking you to feel
free and get in touch with my secretary Ms. Favour Egobia and inform
her where to send the ATM VISA CARD to you. For your information, I
made an over sight and forget to leave some money with her to send the
ATM VISA CARD to you. Please do assist her financially to send the ATM
VISA CARD to you.

Please, do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share
the joy after all the sufferings we went through at that critical
period. At the moment, I am very busy here because of the investment
projects I and my new partner are having at hand.

Finally, I have given instruction to my secretary on your behalf to
send it to you as soon as you contact her, so feel free and get in
touch with her to enable her send the ATM VISA CARD to you without any
delay.

Yours sincerely,

Dr. Ibrahim Usman Abdullah.

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