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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: "MR Felix Adu" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <felixadu.dr@dr.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 10:22:39 -0700
Subject: YOUR URGENT RESPONSE NEEDED




Dear Sir/Madam


I am contacting you in my capacity as the audit chairman of this body-
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of Nigeria. All the African Crime fighter

leaders have come together to stop scam/internet fraud in Nigeria and all around Africa.

Our duty is to make sure we stop Internet scam and money laundering. As for today we have

put a lot of fraudsters in jail. We go all over Africa to pick these thieves/Internet

scammers. We have over 4200 of them in our jails round Africa and we are still looking

for more. We are aware that a lot of foreigners out there have been deceived and lost

their hard earned money to these fraudsters after promising them percentages in their

letters/e-mails for their impending help to move funds out of Africa including fake

lottery winning notification and at the end of the day, they will collect thousands of

dollars from you without a successful end.


We have recovered over US$5.3 Billion Dollars from the people we have behind bars.




Please, watch the video links below as some of these fraud-stars were arrested here in

Nigeria:http://www.youtube.com /watch?v=ISMgGdaGOJM


It was agreed that to launder the good image of Nigeria and the rest of African

countries, all the victims who lost their hard earned monies to these faceless thieves

will be compensated with just US$5M (Five Million Dollars Only). This we assume will help

emulurate the surfferings of those who were effected.




Kindly contact us on the receipt of the above message to enable us commence ways of

having you compensated

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

MR Felix Adu

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