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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. Lord Adair Turner" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <financialservicea@rocketmail.com>
Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 08:21:42 +0200
Subject: SCAM VICTIM COMPENSATION FROM UNITED NATIONS!!!

I am using this opportunity to inform you towards the alert signal we received from the International Monetary Funds regarding the scam victim compensation schedule from the United Nation which I sent to you for the immediate release of your scam victim compensation/contract fund,based on this issue your file was discovered on Friday 4th JANUARY 2012 by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) during their official checkmating of International financial debt records and finds out that you have been involved in several International business transaction in Africa/United States of America and United kingdom-UK which was not been successful,as a matter of fact and confirmation they trapped your email conversation and finally noted that you were dealing with imposters all this while and not only that, that you have spent all your life savings to those fraudsters.
Sequel to this fact the United Nation has included you to be compensated since you have been scammed several times.
In accordance to this schedule you are advised to reconfirm the below details immediately so that I can forward it to the United Nation to enable them issue you an approval document to confirm the immediate release of your contract/Scam Victim Compensation fund which stipulated to the sum of us$10.5million usd.
If Contract payment answer yes………….If compensation answers yes……
(1) Full Name……………………………
(2) Occupation…………………………..
(3) Age…………………………………..
(4) Address…………………………………..
(5) Telephone Number……………………….
(6) Scan copy of your drivers License………………
Immediately you provide the above details, I shall use it to secure the approval document from the United Nation to enable the onward release of your funds without further delay again.
 
Best Regards,
Dr. LORD ADAIR TURNER,
Director Financial Service Authority (F.S.A)

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