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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. Alex H Ferguson" <markpy77@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mferguson714@aol.com
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2020 16:58:46 +0100
Subject: Get back to me ASAP.

Attention: Sir/madam

Your Payment File has been submitted to this Bank for immediate
Payment. Instruction was given and We were Directed by the United
Nations (UN) and (IMF)to transfer fund on
Contract/inheritance/compensation funds to complete all the unpaid
Contract/inheritance/lottery fund.

The bank officials told me that the reason why you haven't received
payment is due to your inability to pay for the required charges for
transfer of funds to your account, The issues is that nobody is
telling you the truth, have you thought how this money became your
own? So many people have told you different stories patterning this
money, and
you are falling a victim

When I asked them why they didn't deduct the said charges from your
principal sum, I was given the flimsy excuse that you never authorized
them to do so. When I put the question across to them if they ever
advised you that such charges could be deducted from your principal
fund, the answer I got was no. Now, if you do not tell this
beneficiary that such charges could be deducted from his or her
principal fund, how will he or she know that such options are
available for such beneficiaries

You do not need to pay any money to any official, all you are
required to do is to pay a TOKEN SUM to Court of Appeal in other to
swear an affidavit at the Court of Appeal, authorizing the,
authorizing the bank to deduct all charges from your principal fund
and transfer the balance of funds after deduction to your bank
account. If you have spent any money in the past in your quest for
payment, kindly let me know so that I can follow this up.

After the evolutional panel. Your Name Email was among the first 25
names that was submitted to my office to pay out without any further
delay in our bid to transparency.

This department needs the following information from you urgently to
enable us verify with the Information we have in the Central computer
of the Bank.

1. Full Names
2. Telephone
3. Contact Address.
4. Age..........
5. Occupation..........
6. Sex..........
7. COPY OF YOUR INT'L PASSPORT/DRIVERS LICENSE


Regards,

Mr. Alex H Ferguson
Chief Auditor
IMF/Fed.Govt.
USA

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