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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: "FUNDS ALERT" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <johnewing.clrny1@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 09:42:08 -0700
Subject: Attention!!!

This is to inform you that we have been working towards the eradication of fraudsters and scam Artists in America, Europe and Africa with the help of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) United Nations (UN), European Union (EU) and FBI.

We have been able to track down some scam artist in various parts of Europe and African countries which includes (Spain, England, Nigeria, Republic of Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana and Senegal with Cote d'ivoire)They are all in Government custody now, they will appear at International Criminal Court (ICC) soon for Justice.

During the course of investigation, we were able to recover some funds from these scam artists and IMF organization have ordered the funds recovered be shared among the 50 Lucky people listed around the World as a compensation and this will be done randomly.

This notice is being directed to you because your email address was found in one of the scam Artists file and computer hard-disk during investigation may be you have been scammed. You are therefore being compensated with sum of ($300,000.00) Three hundred thousand US Dollars valid into an ATM Card which shall be mailed to you .

Since your email address is among the lucky beneficiaries who will receive the compensation funds, we have arranged your payment to be paid to you through ATM VISA CARD and deliver to your postal address with the pin code as to enable you withdrawal maximum of $5,000 on each withdrawal from any Bank ATM Machine of your choice, until all the funds are exhausted.

The ATM Card with Security Pin number shall be delivered to you via courier Service, depending your choice.

In order to proceed with this transaction, you will be required to e-mail us with the following information:

YOUR FULL NAME:
YOUR AGE:
ADDRESS:
YOUR COUNTRY:
CITY:
DIRECT CONTACT PHONE NUMBER:
OCCUPATION:

NOTE:
Send your information to Mr. John Ewing via email
johnewing.clrny1@gmail.com


We advice you to stop all communications with everyone regarding your payment as you have been short listed to receive the compensation and now urge you to comply and receive your ATM Card funds. Your
cooperation will be highly appreciated and if you have any further information that will help this investigation and fight against scam artist. Please do not hesitate to make it available to us.

Thanks for your understanding as you follow instructions while I wait to hear from you soon.

Yours in Services
Mr. John Ewing

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