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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: paul howard <akihiro-ito@e-mail.jp>
Reply-To: paul howard <paulhoward@shqiptar.eu>
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2018 01:44:24 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Financial Crimes Enforcement Network


Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
Headquarters Vienna,Virginia.
2070 Chain Bridge Road,
Suite 200. Vienna, VA 22182


Our Ref: FinCEN/0N8/CONTRACT NO.856.
Motto: Financial,Crimes,Enforcement

Attn Recipient:

This is agent Paul Howard, we were sent by the Acting Director of The
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (Jamal El-Hindi), and we are
currently in Africa as an FinCEN / United States delegate that have
been delegated to investigate foreign transactions going on in Africa.
my reason of coming down from United States to Africa is to make sure
we get all the fraudsters arrested which we have arrested some of them
and before the end of  next week I believe we will recover every
overdue inheritance or compensation fund that belong to you and other
citizens that have not been able to receive their funds because of the
high fee demanded by the fraudsters.

So kindly stop every communication with any other email or phone call
you receive until we complete the investigations we have at hand, I
want you to keep everything to your self to avoid those scammers
notice that we are in their country for investigation until we get all
of them arrested.

I have already recover $4.5 Million United State Dollars which we
requested that you can forward your delivery address so that we can
register it to DHL or UPS Delivery company for them to have it deliver
to you online without any delay as we have instructed the bank where
your fund was deposited to issue an ATM card for you so that we can
register it for delivery to your address you will send to us.

The details needed from you to enable them complete the delivery to
you is below.

Full Name/
Address /
Cell Phone/
Country/

Once we confirm this details we will register your ATM card with the
delivery company and notify you with the tracking number so that you
will be monitoring the delivery, if you receive any other email or
phone call apart from us make sure you forward them to me so that I
can confirm if they are legit or not.

We are here to serve you better.

Regards,
Agent Paul Howard (FinCEN)
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network

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