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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. Ibrahim Mustafa Magu" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <efcccommission400@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2018 21:50:42 +0200
Subject: How are you today??? Good News.


PAYMENT NOTIFICATION

I am in receipt of your email and the information, am very much happy that you are alive and you did not assigned Grace Jackson to claim your fund. What you should do for the immediate release of your fund to you is by contacting the Director International Remittance Dept who is in charge for the release of Fund to beneficiaries.

You are advised to reconfirm the below listed information's to enable us facilitate an immediate release of your Compensation Fund to you.


Full Name:
Country:
State:
Residential Address:
Delivery Address:
Sex:
Age:
Direct Number:
Occupation& Fax Numbers:
Private Email Address:



We are doing this in other to retain the good image of this great country, the president (Muhammadu Buhari) has instructed the payment of (US$1.2 Million), Due to his political straightness, All that you have to do right now is to contact this Office and furnish us with the following data of yours immediately as we intend finalizing this payment in few days time.

Please and Kindly report any suspected email of scam received by you and stop any further communication with anybody or office suspected to be scam artist.


Thank you.

Yours Faithfully,
Ibrahim M. Magu
Chaiman, EFCC.

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