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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, Andrew C" <syiy380@gmail.com>
Reply-To: andrewcceo1@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2022 11:36:42 +0100
Subject: Attention; Dear Sir/Madam

Dear Sir/Madam

This is to bring to your notice of this important information, I am
Mr, Andrew C. a delegate from the United Nations to The Federal
Reserve, the central bank of the United States to pay 100
Nigerian/World 419 scam victims $10,000,000.00 each, you are listed
and approved for this payments as one of the scammed victims, get back
to us as soon as possible for the immediate payments of your
$10,000,000.00 compensations funds.

On this faithful recommendation, know that during the last
U.N.meetings held in New York, USA, it was alarmed so much by the
world in the meetings on the loss of funds by various individuals to
the Nigerian scams artists operating in syndicates all over the world
today.

In order to compensate victims, the U.N Body in conjunction with the
USA government is now paying 100 victims of these operators
$10,000,000.00 each in accordance with the U.N. recommendations. Due
to the corrupt and inefficient Banking Systems in Nigeria, the
payments are to be supervised by the United Nations' Officials and the
U.S. Bank of the Unite States is the paying bank. According to the
number of applicants at hand, 80 Beneficiaries have been paid, half of
the victims are from the United States, and we still have more 20 left
to be paid the compensations.

Your particulars were mentioned by one of the Syndicates who was
arrested in Lagos State Nigeria as one of their victims of the
operations, you are hereby warned not to communicate or duplicate this
message to anyone for any reason whatsoever as the U.S. secret service
is already on trace of the other criminals. So keep it secret till
they are all apprehended. Other victims who have not been contacted
can submit their application as well for scrutiny and possible
consideration.

The F.B.I have combined effort with the United Nation Anti-crime
commission to alleviate and redeem the image and past wounds of
foreigners and firms who were defrauded, scammed and abandoned by this
syndicates to slight down our dignities to international communities.

Many banks have been in bankruptcy today, Universal firms, Companies
and individuals due to the activity of these hoodlums. However,
investigations have shown that these people have dropped over 500,000
victims after collecting their money falsely, many committed suicide
and others living by the grace of God.

With the sanity presently at hand, we have over 114 convicts at hand,
76 in prisons while many are still awaiting trial while We still fetch
for others who feel they are wise and hope that you will be our friend
by giving us more information as per clue in apprehending them.

I shall feed you with further modalities as soon as I hear from you.

Yours faithfully,
Mr, ANDREW C.

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