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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 Johnson Tennessee" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <johnson_tennessee@aol.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2018 22:23:12 -0000
Subject: RC-42556, INTERNATIONAL POLICE COMMAND UNIT

RC-42556, INTERNATIONAL POLICE COMMAND UNIT

My name is Mr Johnson Tennessee I am fraud investigating International Police, attached with United Nations International Police Unit London. I cover Europe, Asia and African countries with my men.

This notification email is coming to you from Interpol Command Unit, please immediately you receive this message do let us know as we need to carry on with this imposter’s work accordingly, I am writing to let you know that my Men in West Africa arrested three gentlemen and lady in the Western Union on Friday been 2018/01/05 namely Anthony Edochie, Emmanuel Obagha, Frank Brown and a lady Ruth Okeke and one of them came from Nigeria and Benin Republic( Ruth Okeke) and through our investigation we discovered that you are among the list of foreigners that fell victims of their fraudulent activities, and they claimed they where doing legitimate transaction with you, they confess that they have been using many other names in receiving Money from you. From our investigation, we discovered that you have lost lots of money, which includes money borrowed from friends to fulfill your financial obligation with these criminals.

We discovered that a lot of names have contacted you and they claimed to be YOUR PARTNERS AND FRIENDS IN BUSINESS. They used your money and do away with it. Though they are now on the run but they that might be writing you from hiding due to mobile internet services.

Please we want to know how much you send to them, to enable us include it in the money we are proposing to return to you immediately. Please we don't have much thing with you for now as you can see we are very busy but all we need is for you to send down your home address and your phone number and how much you have sent to them so far because first thing on Monday Morning we will take them to court and from the court if they found guilty they will be in jail and with need a strong evidence to present in the Court.

So you can e-mail us back with the needed details if you don't know the exactly amount you have sent to Europe, Asia and Africa under scammer's control then you just tell us that you don't know the amount so we can contact the Financial Institutions you used in sending the money to provide the details.

Please all we need from you is the truth meanwhile your fund will be transfer to you under United Nations Scam Victim's Compensation. We need your absolute co-operation right now because your fund worth $2,500,000.00, is right now in custody of Interpol Police Force Command Unity Africa.

Due Corruption undermines political, social and economic stability. It threatens security and damages trust and public confidence in systems which affect people’s daily lives. Although corruption frequently occurs at local or national level, its consequences are global; its hidden costs immense. As the world’s largest International Interpol Police organization is taking its place at the forefront of the fight against corruption, after we received report from (FBI) we decided to not to transfer the fund but keep it in our custody until a thorough investigation is carried out.

We await for details from you upon receipt of this e-mail.

Inspector Mr Johnson Tennessee Interpol Command Unit,
UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF MRS MIREILLE BALLESTRAZZI
UK Office Tel +44- 745-205-7102--10 line (Inside-outside Of The UK )
US Office Tel 1 209 248 1787

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