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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: Ibinabo Pepple <peppleibinabo@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2019 03:07:49 -0700
Subject: Your Compensation..

I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting the fund transferred
to a Swiss Account with the cooperation of a
new partner from Venezuela who is an international business man. Presently
I'm in Venezuela for investment projects
with my own share of the total sum.Meanwhile, I did not forget your past
efforts and attempts to assist me in
transferring those funds despite that it failed us some how. Now contact my
secretary with this information below:

Name: Mrs Hillary Uche
Email: mrs.hillaryuche@hotmail.com

Ask her to send you the total $920.000.00USD (NINE Hundred And Twenty
Thousand US Dollars only) which I kept for your
compensation for all the past efforts and attempts to assist me in this
matter. I appreciated your efforts at that
time very much. So feel free and get in touched with my secretary Mrs
Hillary Uche and instruct her where to send the
amount to you. Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we
can share the joy after all the sufferings
at that time. In the moment, I am very busy here because of the investment
projects which I and the new partner are
having at hand.

Finally, remember that I had forwarded instruction to my secretary on your
behalf to receive that money, so feel free
to get in touch with Mrs Hillary Uche, and she will send the amount to you
without any delay.

Best Regards,
Mr. Ibinabo pepple
Former Director Telex Wire (CBN

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