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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: "Mrs Susan Campbell." (may be fake)
Reply-To: <susancampbell@e-mail.ua>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 15:17:51 +0100
Subject: From Mrs Susan Campbell

World Bank Auditors,
Millbank Tower, 12th Floor,
21-24 Millbank, London SW1P 4QP.
>From the desk of Mrs Susan Campbell.
Tel:44-770-007-7140.

Attn: Beneficiary,

My Name is Mrs Susan Campbell, I am the vice President of the United
Nations/International Monetary Funds investigating unit of World Bank,
Following series of Complaints, by Beneficiaries who are yet to
receive their outstanding Contract/Inheritance/lottery Funds The
International monitory fund investigating Unit discovered particularly
in your own case that some Corrupt bank/Government Officials had the
intention of diverting your Funds to their own private Accounts
abroad.

The Team has carried out the investigation and recovered some Payment
Files which has since been approved for payment which yours was
inclusive, secondly, in the same file of yours, there is a letter
stating that you are dead, so based on this, we are contacting you to
verify the true position of your status, and you have only 72hours to
reply this mail or we will work with what we saw in your file that you
are dead, and I will personally append my signature to push your fund
into the government treasury account as an unclaimed fund.

You are hereby advised to reply this mail immediately to confirm if
you actually wrote that Letter forfeiting your Funds otherwise you
should indicate your interest in receiving your fund by filling the
below information.

(1) Full Name:
(2) Residential Address:
(3) Telephone Number (Mobile Number if any):
(4) Age and Marital Status:
(5) Occupation/ Company Name:
(6) Expected Amount:
(7) Contract/file number:

You are advised to fully co-operate to enable us serve you better in
this payment quarter of the year 2013.

Best Regards,
Mrs Susan Campbell

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