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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: "Mr Frank Collins." (may be fake)
Reply-To: <frank.collins23@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 21:22:32 +0200
Subject: From Directorate of International Payment and Transfers

World Bank Assisted Programmed,
Directorate of International Payment and Transfers,
Washington DC, U.S.A.

My Name is Mr Frank Collins, I'm the vice chairman of the United

Nations/International Monetary Funds investigating unit in West

Africa, we just arrived into Nigeria last week Following series of

Complaints, by Beneficiaries who are yet to receive their outstanding

Contract/Inheritance/lottery Funds, from the Central Bank and other

Commercial Banks in Nigeria and following the release of funds to the

Nigerian government by the World

Bank,...http://www.nairaland.com/878650/world-bank-assisted-nigeria-

500m
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 have since been approved for payment which yours was

inclusive, secondly, in the same file of yours, there is a letter

here 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 Nigerian government treasury account as an

unclaimed fund.

You are hereby advised to reply this mail immediately to confirm

whether or not you actually wrote that Letter forfeiting your Funds

otherwise you should indicate your interest in receiving your fund.

(1) Full Name:
(2) Residential Address:
(3) Telephone Number (Mobile Number if any):
(4) Age and Marital Status:
(5) Core Job or Occupation:
(6) Your Amount:

You are advised to fully co-operate with this Team so that we can

serve you better in this new quarter payment of this year 2013.

Waiting
Mr Frank Collins.
Nigeria, telephone number +234-7082085663

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