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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. Jimo Koramo" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <taskforceonairportcommittee@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 08:40:32 -0700
Subject: Can we do this together?

>From the Desk of Dr. Jimo Koramo
Chairman Presidential Taskforce on Airport De congestion Committee,
Heathrow International Airport London,
United Kingdom.

Attention:

Kindly accept my apology for sending unsolicited mail to you. I believe you are a highly respected personality, considering the fact that I
sourced your profile from a human resource profile database on your country.

My name is Dr. Roland Brooks, am a foreign worker here in London, United Kingdom. I want to seek your assistant for an urgent business transaction,
Subsequent to a bipartite meeting held on the 24th of July 2014 at the presidential villa it was unanimously agreed that a committee be put in
place to ensure the release of all abandoned and unclaimed consignments boxes at the heathrow International Airport Warehouse. This is as a
result of several petition from individual, co-operate bodies and the international community on the failure to receive their various goods from
the Airport warehouse, From my record there is 1 Metallic Trunk Box tagged (Bent Reed), This consignment was scanned and content was $10.5 Million
( Ten Million, Five Hundred thousand United State Dollar).

The beneficiary of this consignment was abandoned by diplomatic officers who could not make the Delivery. I hereby want to seek your consent to
present you as the beneficiary of this consignment so that it can be delivered to you as the beneficiary next of kin. I will hereby offer you
40% for your kind assistance while I take 50% and 10% will be set aside for any expenses incurs by both parties during the execution of this
transaction.I am prepare to arrange for a DIPLOMATIC LIFTING COMPANY to deliver this consignment to you at your doorstep there in your country.

If you are interested, kindly forward to me as below address: mr.jimokoramo@gmail.com Name: Country: Telephone number: Occupation:
Residential or Delivery address.

I will be waiting for your urgent response.

Dr. Jimo Koramo

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