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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. Jack Brook" <companyservice.agent@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2022 16:52:09 +0100
Subject: I have a pure deal for you!!


I am the new EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR and Head of Operations of Overseas Credit
Commission in London,UK, Sometime ago, in our organization, an overdue
consignment fund was brought to our office for final delivery clearance.

However, upon my arrival to this office, I found this consignment clearance
file lying fallow on my desk without any attention. On thorough scrutiny I
discovered that the consignment had been abandoned by the delivery agent.
Meanwhile, I have made several attempts to contact the delivery agent but
to no avail. To my greatest surprise, during my recent routine checking, I
personally discovered that consignment content declaration documents stated
that the consignment contains personal effects meanwhile, it contains
United States dollar bills worth over Millions US dollars, which made it
impossible for the consignment to be delivered to the owner earlier than
now.

Based on this personal discovery, I am contacting you now to let you know
that with my position and power in this office, I can assist and deliver to
you as the owner to legally clear your consignment fund, but you must
agree with the following conditions:

You must not disclose to any member of my organization whatever assistance
that I am going to render to you in respect of clearing this consignment
fund into your custody. Please, it's a very good deal between me and you to
make sure you keep this secret okay .

You will provide me with an authenticated promissory note, otherwise known
as partnership agreement, that upon the safe arrival of the consignment
fund to your custody, that you give me 40% of the total fund contained in
the
consignment.

You must give adequate attention to this matter until we successfully and
legally clear the consignment fund into your custody.
Upon your acceptance with my above conditions, I will furnish you with
further details of what should be done to legally get the consignment fund
cleared and delivered to you as the rightful owner of the consignment.

Meanwhile, if you know that you would be unable to keep the secret of my
assistance to you in this regard, please do not hesitate to reply.

Hence the consignment fund would be recovered into our organization
treasury account as an unclaimed consignment fund. Be informed that the
consignment contains the sum of $6.3 million dollars in the luggage.

But if you can assure me of your competency to keep this secret, I would
like to hear from you as soon as possible so that I can email you further
details and guidelines.

I am looking forward to your earliest response.

Have a Great Day
Mr. Jack Brook
Head of Operations

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