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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: "Security/Exchange Commission" <test3@sdpost.com.cn>
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2015 04:07:33 +0800 (CST)
Subject: COMPENSATION




Attention,

A compensation payment is being arranged for you by the Securities and Exchange Commission to compensate you for the loss you might have incurred in the pursuit of your Contract, Inheritance and Lottery payment with the government of some West African Countries so many years ago. I want to inform you that your email account was retrieved from some fraudsters caught who defrauded many foreigners some years ago and after consideration you were included for a compensation payment.

The present government after due consideration and advise from the ICSID,SEC,EU,UN and the AU decided that a compensation amount of $1,750,000.00 should be paid to you and nine others each. We at the ICSID and Securities and Exchange Commission have been charged to assist in this by going through the Stock Exchange and Chamber of commerce to trade stocks to raise capital for this compensation Payment to you.Its obvious that some of this hoodlums are presently at large.
If you have any dealings with such,you are advised to henceforth put a stop and also disregard their mails to you from now onward.

Do respond as soon as Possible.Your interest to collect/receive this compensation so that we can move on with the procedures. Reply to this email: icsiddept@yahoo.com

Regards.

Barr Anthony Bells Esq
Securities and Exchange Commission
icsiddept@yahoo.com

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