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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: "ICPC" <icpc1@goodscompany.onmicrosoft.com>
Reply-To: icpc.nta1@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 20:54:06 -1200
Subject: PAYMENT RECEIPT.


Sir/Madam.

This is Chairman. Mr Ekpo Nta of ICPC Nigeria.(Independent Corrupt Practice Commission, ICPC) in alliance with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), with their Head Office here in Nigeria has been working towards the total eradication of fraudsters and scam in here in Nigeria With the help of the United States Government. We have been able to track down so many of this scammers in various parts of (NIGERIA) and they are all in our custody here in Lagos Nigeria, meanwhile during the process of arrest, We were able to recover some funds from the prosecuted scammer.

With this great achievement, this Anti-crime commission and the United State Government/Federal Government Of Nigeria have ordered that the money recovered from these Scammers be shared among 100 people whom there email appear in the list with Commission. This email is directed to you because your email address was found in one of the file and computer hard disk recovered from the prosecuted scammers there in our custody. You are therefore being compensated with the sum of $5Million Dollars. We have also arrested all those who claimed to be Barristers, Bank Officials, Lottery Agents, Person or group of Person's who claim to have funds in their custody that belonged to you or want you to be the Next of kin of such funds which do not exist ,Since your email appeared among the lucky Beneficiaries who will receive a compensation of $5Million Dollars, which we have arranged all payment to be made to you through Swift Card.(ATM).Delivery Please do feel free to direct your email back with required information to person in charged of ATM Program/Delivery from ZENITH BANK PLC, the swift card has been specially prepared to enable you withdraw your money in any ATM machine in any part of the world, but the maximum is Five Thousand Dollars Only per day, due to security reasons, so you are therefore advised to direct all your mails to me with the required information as stated below.

Mr Ekpo Nta
TEL: (+234 803 629 3287)
EMAIL: (icpc.nta1@gmail.com)

You are advice to forward the information bellow to enable us prepare your ATM Card including your Pin for easy accessibility.

Your Full Name_______________________
Your Address________________________
P.O.BOX_________________________________
Country__________________________
Telephone Number________________________
Mobile Number_________________
Fax Number______________________________
Occupation________________________
Marital Status_______________________
Age_________Sex_____________

Officially Sign.
Mr Ekpo Nta
Chairman ICPC Nigeria.
(Independent Corrupt Practice Commission, (ICPC)
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If you have received this communication in error, please notify ICPC immediately by replying to this message.

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