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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: Muna Sombo <munasombo@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 08:35:53 +0000
Subject: Compensation from Muna

Hello from Muna ,
I could not contact you earlier before now due to my tight schedules. I am
very happy to inform you about my success in getting my fund/money under
the cooperation of a new partner Mr. John Corlins from Canada, Presently I
am in Toronto Canada with my partner for some projects with the money.

Meanwhile,I did not forget your past efforts and attempts to assist me in
that process despite that it failed us at that time due to no trust.
Now, I want you to contact Reverend Father Philip, He is the presiding
Reverend at the church 144 rue Medina, Dakar, Senegal. I dropped a cheque
of $300,000,00 dollars for you, just to compensate you for your past
efforts to help me retrieve my fund.
His email address is -- ( reverend_philip@hotmail.com )
his phone number is -- ( +221707806388 )
This Rev. Helped me a lot when the going was too difficult and i decided to
keep your money with him because he is a man to be trusted and a man of God
to the chore.

Arrange with him how the total cheque sum of three hundred thousand dollars
( $300,000.00 ) will reach you safely which I have already kept for your
compensation for all the past efforts and attempts to assist me in this
matter. I appreciated your efforts at that time very much.

So feel free to get in touch with The Rev. and discuss with him how the
amount will reach you. Please do let me know immediately you contact him to
receive it so that we can share the joy after all the sufferness at that
time. As at moment,I am very busy here because of the projects which I and
my husband are having at hand.

Finally,remember that I had forwarded instruction to the Reverend on your
behalf to receive that cheque, so feel free to get in touch with him and he
will send the cheque to you without any delay. Contact him through his
email and phone number, God bless you.

Best regards,
Muna

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