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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: MARK SMITH <offcey@tim.it>
Reply-To: marksmithwb1@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2017 21:50:35 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: VERY URGENT RESPONDS NEEDED



GOOD DAY;



Your Approval Payment USD$16.6million

Sometimes
i do wonder if you are really, really with yourself. How could you keep
trusting people and at the end you will loose your hard earned money,
or are you being deceived by their big names? They impersonate on many
offices, claiming to be Governors, Directors/Chairmen of one Office or
the other.

Their game plan is only just to extort your hard earned money. Now, the question is how long will you continue to be deceived?

Anyways,
by the virtue of my position, I have been following this transaction
from inception and all your efforts towards realizing the fund. More
often than not, it is very unfortunate that at the end you loose.

Although,
I don't blame you because you are not around to witness the processing
of your payment by yourself. The problem here is that you've never been
told the whole truth about this transaction and it is because of this
truth they decided to extort you, the keeping collecting money from you
both in Africa. UK and Europe

The
most annoying part is even fraudsters have really taken advantage of
this opportunity to enrich themselves at your expenses; those you feel
are assisting or working for you are your main problems.

I
know the truth surrounding this payment and i am the only person who
will deliver you from this long suffering if you will abide by my
advice. Please i beseech you to stop pursuit of shadows and being
deceived. Feel free to contact me immediately you receive this mail so
that i can explain to you the modus-operandi guiding the release of your
Payment. Do not panic or have fear for anything, i know you have gone
through hell but time has come to reap.

Furthermore,
all i need from you is trust, just give me the trust all your
information is here with me, because i have work in UN office for over 8
years both in Africa and UK and there is no means of receiving payment
that cost anything except Court affidavit of claim of fund certificate
if the owner is not there in person, which will not cost more than

In
addition, all the fees they ask both transfer cost or delivering cost,
clearance certificate known of them exist. If you really want us to
precede send me your direct contact or you ignore my letter if you are
not interested.


Regards,
Rev Mark Smith

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