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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: "Dr. William Maurice" <isaacokello296@gmail.com>
Reply-To: dr.williammaurice.wdrcc2022@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2023 00:05:59 +0100
Subject: Scam Victims Compensation Comittee Payments.

From the desk of; Dr. William Maurice
President, World Debt Reconciliation & Compensation Commission
International Investigations Panels and Anti-Fraud Unit,
Financial Services Commission Regulation and
Scammed Victims Beneficiaries Compensation Payments
Kampala, Uganda.


Scammed Victims Beneficiaries Compensation Payments.
Ref/Payments code: 0284553 ( us$2,750,000.00 ) United States Dollars Only.


Attention Please; Beneficiary,

This is to bring to your notice that we are delegation/delegated from
the United Nations (UN), International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank
Groups, European Union (EU), United States, United Kingdom with other
world powers to pay 193 scammed victims the sum of ( us$2,750,000.00
=Two Million Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand United States Dollars
Only ) each. You are listed and approved for this payment as one of
the scammed victims to be paid this amount because the arrested
perpetrators of the scams has mentioned your name and email address as
one of their victims and you are listed to be part who will benefit
from the compensations.

We arrived here in Kampala, Uganda, last Monday from Europe, United
States, Asia and other parts of the world as appointed and constituted
to offset and pay all outstanding foreign payments ourselves in order
to eradicate and stop the scam practice going on around the world
today.

The payments will be in form of T.A.C transfer access code which does
not require long process and your account will be credited immediately
you submit the T.A.C to your bank. Note that all it requires is for us
to process your T.A.C here and dispatch the document to your address
and you will submit the T.A.C transfer access code to your bank and
your account officer or any Bank staff will credit your account
immediately with the instruction in the T.A.C document you will
receive.

This is to avoid all the process the scammers will use to extorts
money from you and at the end of the day divert your approved fund
into their overseas private accounts for their private use.

The only money you need to get this complete is ($155) for mailing the
T.A.C transfer access code to your address and submit to your bank and
they will credited your total approved fund ( us$2,750,000.00 )
immediately without any delays.

If you need a certified Bank check or ATM card we will pay you as requested.

Thanks for your understanding and co-operations.

Yours in service,

Dr. William Maurice
President/Chairman, World Debt Reconciliation & Compensation
Commission International Investigations Panels and Anti-Fraud Unit,
Financial Services Commission Regulation and
Scammed Victims Beneficiaries Compensation Payments.
E-mail: dr.williammaurice.wdrcc2022@gmail.com

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