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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: "INSPECTOR IBRAHIM IDRIS" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <scamreport@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 06:26:10 -0700
Subject: URGENT SCAM ALERT.

The Nigerian Police
Force Headquarters
Louis Edet House
Shehu Shagari Way
P.M.B 153 Abuja-Nigeria
website: www.npf.gov.ng

Motto: Loyalty and Justice
From The Desk of Ibrahim Kpotun Idris
The Inspector General of Police
Federal Republic of Nigeria

Good day,

The Internet Crime Division of the Nigerian Police collected information from the Internet Fraud Complain Center and we discovered that you have been communicating with scammers for the past few years now regarding your unpaid fund and additional investigation revealed that you have spent a lot of your hard earned money just to accomplish the successful transfer of your fund to your bank account by obtaining transfer documents as demanded by scammers, costing you a lot of money but all to no benefit, in the process of our investigation, we discovered that the reason why you have not received your fund is because you have been making contact with the wrong people who claimed to be somebody else just to extract and steal money from you.

We are very sorry for any inconvenience or lost these people might have caused you in any way and I want to use these medium to assure you that your fund will be released to you along with all the money you lost to those scammers, I must tell you at this point in time that you should have reported the issue to the Nigerian Police before you started sending money to scammers but not to worry, those scammers are under investigation and I promise you that those people involved in this act will be brought to justice for given this great country a bad name and influence all over the world.

Meanwhile your fund is still available and will be transferred to you through a Federal Government approved paying bank called Heritage Finance Bank. Your payment is 100% guaranteed and will be transferred to you without delay or request for transfer fee, the scammers request money for transfer fee because they don't have access to your fund but lie to you just to extract money from you. As soon as we verify that all information and report about you been scammed is true, I will send you a protocol to contact the Heritage Finance Bank for immediate transfer of your fund. Note that your real total sum of US*$10 million dollars will be released to you as soon as we make our verification that you are who you say you are and that the information which you gave to us about being scammed is true.

Once again, we apologize on behalf of the President and the good people of Nigeria for any delay and lost those scammers must have coursed you in any way and we promise that such will not happen again in the future because we are here to protect you and make sure your fund is successfully transferred to you and should in case you are currently dealing with those scammers or anybody not referred to you by us regarding your fund, please we urge you to stop further contact with them immediately as you are taking a very big risk and it might interest you to know that you will never get your fund from them as they have nothing to offer you but lies just to extract money from you, the scammers will continue coming up with expenses, excuses and thereby requesting for more money from you for this and that and they will not stop until you go Bankrupt, so for your own good, you are advised to stop further communication with them immediately and send all your corresponding email commun!
ication with them to us for furthe

Finally, we will be waiting for your response to enable us serve you better.

Remain blessed.

Ibrahim Kpotun Idris
The Inspector General of Police

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