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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: US SUPREME COURT <chinedundimele93@gmail.com>
Reply-To: usschon@att.net
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2023 12:31:08 -0800
Subject: From the Desk of; Hon. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, GCOB Chief Justice of
United States America

This is to notify you that United
state government officials visited my office this morning with an
envelope containing copies of documents and the documents are your
compensation payment file. They stated that you disclaimed your
compensation fund worth US$28,000,000.00 ( twenty-eight Million
United States Dollars). and their purpose of visiting my office is to
seek support and have my signature on the documents for easy
confiscation of your compensation fund to the government budget
account since you don't want to receive it. but with the experience in
the judiciary I refused to sign the documents. Because I want to
confirm from you before any action will be taken over the petition
written against you.

I ask them to leave the documents with me to get more information from
you first, if truly that you disclaimed your compensation fund before
I will sign for the confiscation as they demanded. The gentleman will
be returning back in a week's time to
have my final answer to their demand.

NOTE; The US$28,000,000.00 ( twenty-eight Million United States
Dollars) is a compensation fund from the government to you since 22
Jan 2022 and From Bank of America and Federal reserve bank Pl c
confirmed that you abandoned the fund without showing any sign of
seriousness as the beneficiary. Listen; I am Hon. Sonia Sotomayor,
GCOB Chief Justice of the United States, I want you to feel free and
explain to me why you ask the government to confiscate your
compensation fund.

I await your kind and honest explanation concerning the above subject.
Whatever you said is what I must do and no judgment comes after it.
Therefore; you have the chance to say your mind over this matter
because whatever information and instruction given from you is what I
will sign on.

Thanks and God bless.
Send me your contact phone number if you still want to receive your fund.

Best Regards,
From the Desk of;
Hon. Justice Sonia Sotomayor

Supreme Court of the United States
1 First Street, NE Washington, DC 20543

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