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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: JPMorgan <ndavehugo@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 06:55:03 -0400
Subject: THANKS

JPMorgan Chase Bank,
Full Service Brick and Mortar Office
561 West Interstate 30
Garland, TX 75043
Email= ndavehuggo@gmail.com
Attention:,
My name is Mr.Dave Hugo from United State of America, Presently
working as Chief Executive Auditor with JP Morgan Chase Bank here in
America. I know that this information through your email will come to
you as a surprise as we never met before, because of high rate of
fraudulent activities in the internet. I will be happy to work this
deal out with you if you have a corporate or personal Bank Account
also if you are capable to keep TOP SECRET. I need strong Assurance
that you will never let me down, if I transfer this money to your
account. I Hope that you will not expose or betray this trust and
confident that I am about to repose on you for the mutual benefit of
our both families. I need your urgent assistance in transferring the
sum of Fifteen Million Eight Hundred and Fifty Thousand United State
Dollars ($15,850,000.00) to your account.
The fund has been dormant (in-active) for 10 years in our Bank here
without anybody coming for it. I want to release the fund to you as
the nearest person to our deceased customer from Switzerland Zurich,
Mr.Brantley Lewis Audit (the owner of the account) who died along with
his supposed next of kin in air crash since on 31st July 2000. The
Bank will release the fund to you as the nearest person to the
deceased customer.
I would respectfully request that you treat the content of this letter
as privileged and respect the integrity of the information you come by
as a result of this correspondence. Contact me immediately for more
information and to begin the normal process of redeeming the fund
before the bank is compelled by law to hand over the money to the
government.
I look forward to hear from you as soon as possible
Very Important: You should contact me through my private Email.(
ndavehuggo@gmail.com)

Most Sincerely,
Mr.Dave Hugo

Please contact me on this email for urgent response

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