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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: "Economic and Financial Crimes Commission" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <efcc.complaint.dept@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2012 13:21:28 -0700
Subject: Attention Victim/For Your Compensation

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
15A Awolowo Road, Ikoyi, Lagos.
Nigeria
http://www.efccnigeria.org
Email: efcc.complaint.dept@gmail.com

Attention Victim,

The Federal Government of Nigeria through provisions in Section 419 of the Criminal Code came up with punitive measures to deter and punish offenders.The Advance Fee Fraud section deal mainly with cases of advance fee
fraud(commonly called 419) such as obtaining by false pretence through different fraudulent schemes e.g.contract scam, credit card scam,inheritance scam, job scam, lottery scam, “wash wash” scam (money washing scam), marriage
scam. Immigration scam, counterfeiting and religious scam. It also investigates cyber crime cases.

In this regard a meeting was held between the Board of Directors of The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and as a consequence of ourinvestigations it was agreed that the sum of Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand
United States Dollars ($250,0000.00) should be transferred to you out of the funds that Federal Government of Nigeria has set aside as a compensation to everyone who have by one way or the other sent money to fraudsters in Nigeria.
Note that you have to provide us with the necessary informations listed below for further investigation.

i. NAME:
ii. SURNAME:
iii DATE OF BIRTH:
iv. OCCUPATION:
v. RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS:
vi. TELEPHONE NUMBER:
vii. OFFICE TELEPHONE:
viii FAX NUMBER:
ix. NATIONALITY:
x. A RECENT COPY OF YOUR PASSPORT PHOTOGRAPH:



for more information on how to go about receiving claims funds,please
contact our Internet Crime Complaint Center:
efcc.complaint.dept@gmail.com



Yours sincerely,


Ibrahim Lamord (Mr)
Chairman and President
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)

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