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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: Inspector Ibrahim Kpotun Idris <scammreport@gmail.com>
Reply-To: inspectorkpotunidris@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2018 07:27:11 +0100
Subject: THE REASON WHY YOU LOST YOUR MONEY TO SCAMMERS

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The Nigerian Police Force
Louis Edet House
Force Headquarters
Shehu Shagari Way
Abuja-Nigeria
www.npf.gov.ng

Motto: To Protect With Integrity
From The Desk of Ibrahim Kpotun Idris
The Inspector General of Police
Federal Republic of Nigeria

Good day,

The Internet Crime Division of the Nigerian Police Force {NPF} gathered
information from the Internet Fraud Complain Center {IFCC} and we
discovered that you have been communicating with scammers/impostors for the
past few years now regarding your unpaid fund and further investigation
revealed that you have spent a lot of your hard earned money just to
conclude the successful transfer of your fund to your bank account by
obtaining transfer documents as requested by scammers/impostors, costing
you a lot of money but all to no avail, in the process of our
investigation, we discovered that the reason why you have not received your
fund is because you have been making contact with the wrong people who
claimed to be somebody else just to extract and steal money from you.

We are very sorry for any inconvenience or lost these people might have
caused you in any way and I want to use these medium to assure you that
your fund will be released to you along with all the money you lost to
those scammers, I must tell you at this point in time that you should have
reported the issue to the Nigerian Police Force {NPF} before you started
sending money to scammers but not to worry, we are working on the situation
now and I promise you that those involved in this act will be brought to
justice for given this great country a bad name and influence all over the
world.

Meanwhile your long overdue fund is still available and will be transferred
to you through a Government approved paying bank called Heritage Finance
Bank. Your payment is 100% guaranteed and will be paid to you without
delay. As soon as we verify that all information and report about you been
scammed is true, I will send you a protocol to contact the Heritage Finance
Bank for immediate transfer of your fund. Note that your real total sum of
US*$18 million dollars will be released to you as soon as we make our
verification that you are who you say you are and that the information
which you gave to us about being scammed is true.

Once again, we apologize on behalf of the President and the good people of
Nigeria for any delay and lost those scammers must have coursed you in any
way and we promise that such will not happen again in the future because we
are here to protect you and make sure your fund is successfully transferred
to you and should in case you are currently dealing with any one of them or
anybody not referred to you by us regarding your fund, please we urge you
to stop further contact with them immediately as you are taking a very big
risk and it might interest you to know that you will never get your fund
from them as they have nothing to offer you but lies just to extract money
from you, the scammers will continue coming up with expenses, excuses and
thereby requesting for more money from you for this and that and they will
never stop until you go Bankrupt, so for your own good, you are advised to
stop further communication with them immediately and send all your
corresponding email communication with them to us for fur

Finally, we will be waiting for your response to enable us serve you better.

Remain blessed.

Ibrahim Kpotun Idris
The Inspector-General of Police

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