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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: "Prof. Jerry Smith" <profjerrysmith103@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 04:01:51 -0800
Subject: Your Good Information

Dear Friend,


I am Prof Jerry Smith, director fund management and project supervisor
African parliament , are you not tired of paying fees to people who wants
to use your name and money to execute business transactions for their own
selfish interest, how long will you believe in their lies and constant
demand for money, you receive quite number of business proposals everyday
in and outside Nigeria yet you have not receive one cent in all your
dealings, for how long will you trust and believe in those impersonated
stories? have you for one day asked yourself why after spending a lot of
fees to receive whatever they promised you and nothing was paid to you in
the end rather you will receive another proposal different with new amount,
check within yourself what you have benefited since you engaged yourself
into these transactions, have you asked yourself why you receive different
business proposal of numerous stories from different countries, why cant
you think why you keep receiving different proposals every minutes without
any payment in the end, have you asked if the business actually exist. you
will not receive any money from those promises of different proposals since
the only fund approved in your name is $6.9million dollars as sub-letted
beneficiary.

READ CAREFULLY

Actually your name appeared on the Nigeria Beneficiary manifest booklet as
sub-letted beneficiary to receive fund amount sum of $6.9million dollars,
those people contacting you from all over the world did not guide you
properly concerning how this funds was awarded to you rather they used
their connections in different countries through banks, security agencies,
ministries and institutions to contact you just to extort your hard earned
money to sponsor transactions for their own benefit then make you believe
that you will receive your funds one day which will never happen because
your name is on the government list as sub-letted beneficiary while those
crooks where using documents of already paid fund of the first executor to
contact you from different countries like UK, SPAIN, AMERICA, GHANA E.T.C,.
Those people branded Nigeria with bad names on both local and international
scene just because you where claiming something that you don't know how and
why it was awarded to you.


Finally, I am in the position to set things straight if actually you want
to receive your funds, forget those proposals you receive from individuals
, banks, ministries ETC, the only fund approved to you as a sub-letted
beneficiary is $6.9 million any other proposal is fabricated to extort and
use you, calculate how much you have spent and time wasted and nothing was
paid to you yet you keep receiving series of proposals, well you can
continue with them but bear it in mind that you will not receive a cent
from them rather you will spend and get frustrated and they will abandon
you to suffer even continued to demand for more money even when you can not
feed yourself due to their deceit and untruthfulness, you trusted and
believed them but they stab you when you needed them most to keep to their
promises. you will not believe me because those people you trusted have
really broken your heart with different stories just to extort your hard
earned money, you have the opportunity to wipe away your tears, if you can
forget the past and give room to new opportunity now that you have been
told the truth. good people still exist here in Africa so give these
opportunity a trial and you will see how the turn out will be.

Waiting for your prompt response

Regards
Prof Jerry Smith

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