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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.FRANK LEE" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <lee_dr.frank@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2013 13:39:06 -0400
Subject: PAYMENT

     Dear Beneficiary,
 
 
    I hope that this correspondence is received with the urgency and
    expediency required.
 
    It has come to the notice of the Board of Trustees at the CBN that
    your present inheritance claims application being handled by the
    Remmitting Bank in Nigeria is experiencing some man made
    irregularities.To this effect,it has become neccesary for the Board of
    Trustees to invite trained Fund Transfer Specalists from the United
    States to resolve and regularize your fund release with immediate
    effect.
 
    We at Frank-lee & Associates have been duly consulted by the CBN
    Board of Trustees and have been fully informed about how the staff of
    the remmitting bank have been taking advantage of you by telling you
    to pay unneccesarily exhorbitant charges which will only make your
    fund payment a long drawn out process.
 
    Due to this we have decided to step into the process of your fund
    transfer to enable your funds to be transfered within the soonest
    possible time you are to get back to us immediatly without needing to
    pay all the huge sums of monies that are being demanded from you by
    the remmitting bank.
 
    All proccesses to have your funds paid to you imediately through the
    CBN's Laison Remmittance Office in New York have been initiated to
    cut out unneccesary costs.You are advised to keep this communication
    highly confidential as the CBN Board of Trustees have asked us to
    resolve this fund payment independent of the office of the CBN
    Gorvernor to identify the principal participants in this unethical
    payment procedure.
 
    Furthermore,you are hereby advised to pay no furtherfees or charges to
    the Remmitting Bank in Nigeria as they shall no longer be handling
    your payment process.
 
    We shall await your immedite correspondence with your direct telephone
    numbers for re-confirmation to my confidential email address at
    (lee_dr.frank@yahoo.com) so that we may conclude your payment
    immediately.
 
    Yours Sincerely,
    Dr.Frank Lee.

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