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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: tracy brown <tracybrown4010@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2018 08:15:47 -0700
Subject: PLEASE IS CONFIDENTIAL

PLEASE IS CONFIDENTIAL
Attn: Sir,

I am contacting you to assist me in an over invoiced contract executed in
Nigeria last year 2016 and to enable me to transfer the sum of $15.5m to
safe account abroad.

I need your honesty and straight forwardness in this transaction. All you
need to do is to act as a sublet (N.N.P.C) contractor who happened to
execute a contract in Nigeria and the Federal government of Nigeria is
owing you the above sum of money, all paper work will be perfected once you
respond positively to this proposal.

Do not entertain any atom of fear, I guarantee you that this a hitch-free
transaction backed up with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation
(N.N.P.C) members involved and the Federal Ministry of Finance Nigeria,
Which am the "Chairman Board of Trustee" in charge of foreign contractors
payment, we offer you 20% of the total sum.

If you are interested, kindly furnish me with the information below for
proper documentation.

YOUR FULL NAME
YOUR CONTACT ADDRESS
YOUR TELEPHONE NUMBER

I await for your urgent reply.

Regards,
Dr Chizaram Ijeoma
EMAIL ME:chizaramijeoma@e1.ru

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