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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: "Demir Erdogan" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <greghester11@outlook.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2019 09:14:18 -0700
Subject: Kindly contact ASAP.............

Attention: Beneficiary

How are you today? Be inform that your original Payment Slip Transfer Access Code Number have being released to this office by the President, and you are advise to contact this office for the release of your presidential access Code number to enable your bank credit your account with the sum amount of $US14.5M.

You are therefore advice to contact this office in order to collect your original Slip with your Pin and Transfer Access Code to enable your bank credit your account with sum amount of $14.5M

Note, as soon as you submit these codes with your payment slip to your bank, they will credit your account without any further delay.

Please Kindly re-confirm your information's to avoid transfer of this fund into a wrong account.

1, Full Names
2, Contact Address
3, Telephone/Mobile
4, Means of Identification
5, Occupations

Congratulations.

Yours faithfully,
Demir Erdogan
(Chairman committee consultant on banking and financial matters).

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