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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: "AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (ADB)" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <aldanmagaji@centrum.cz>
Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 06:00:33 +0100
Subject: (IN YOUR OWN INTEREST GET BACK TO US)

Attention Beneficiary,

We write to confirm from you what we just heard from Mr. Allan Brown Gerald and Mr. Frank Brown, about yourself. They came to our office last week and submitted a claim form application and informed us that you are seriously sick and because of your illness, you signed a deed of assignment with Mr. Allan Brown Gerald who is next of kin and willed him to claim your fund amounted to sum of US$1,753M your compensation settlement fund from The United Nation (UN), The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the African Development Bank (ADB) has been mandated to pay you.

We hereby decided to contact you officially to find out if the information we received from Mr. Allan Brown Gerald and group is truth or false. Please be informed that failure to reply back in the next 48hrs simply means that the information we received is truth and we have to continue with him.

Meanwhile, in your own interest you are advised to reply back to us to enable us stop any further communication with Mr. Allan Brown Gerald and group. We have finalized arrangement concerning your payment pending when we receive confirmation e-mail from you to enable us forge ahead.

Your Payment File has been submitted to the authorities/personnel's and officers in-charge of your payment. To this end, on your own interest, you are advised to contact immediately, AL-AHMED DANMAGAJI, the Director Foreign Operations on the following contacts details below.

He attends to matters in his personal email more often hence we recommend you contact him through his personal email address as follows i.e. (aldanmagaji@centrum.cz) if you need urgent attention from him and you can call him on phone to alert him after sending your mail since he is a very busy person.

HIS PRIVATE EMAIL: (aldanmagaji@centrum.cz)
CELL PHONE NUMBER: +234-813-352-5020.

YOU CAN ALSO REACH HIM ON HIS OFFICE CONTACTS DETAILS BELOW:
OFFICE DIRECT TEL: +234-709-345-8629, +234-1-760-7645
OTHER TEL: +234-809-557-7356

We advise you to go ahead and proceed dealing with AL-AHMED DANMAGAJI directly because he is the rightful personnel and officer to handle your case as your payment file is right in his office.

Finally, for proper accountability and proper identification, you are hereby advised to reconfirm to AL-AHMED DANMAGAJI, your full name, your home or company's address and your cell phone number/ your home telephone number for verbal discussion in case of any emergency.

Yours faithfully,

Mike Johnson
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The information transmitted is intended solely for the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of or taking action in reliance upon this information by person or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer.
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