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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: "Pastor Jules Leo" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <pastorjules01@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 19:06:45 +0100
Subject: Re: Re: Your Payment Notice.

Attn: My Beloved,

Compliments of the season, we want to bring to your notice, that your unclaimed fund being the part project as compensation for you from the IMF has not been claimed by you.

Thus, it has been of a matter of urgency that you’re adhered to come forth to the claim of this fund and for onward fund release order without any hitch. On the same vein, the Registry Office has a mandate of amnesty to effect of the conclusion and release all the pending foreign funds to its recipients’ upon compliance of the Financial Ethics Law of 2016 as amended. We implore you to kindly re-confirm all your contact details, so that we can compute into our data processing unit and for onward transfers.

We have provided a modalities to effect to the success of this transaction at easy without delay, while waiting to have the below;

Your means of identification
Contact address and Phone numbers
A copy of your recent utilities bill

NOTE: You are to receive $1,200,000.00 dollars by cash or wired bank transfer. So I HEREBY ADVISED you to Disassociate Yourself from any form of Communication with Individuals, Banks, co-operate bodies and Government Officials if happen you already in contact with any one and Follow my Guidelines to receive your payment without delay or hinderance.

We are re-assuring you that upon receipt of your swift email, then the progressive action follows suit.

Looking forwards to hearing from as soon as possible.

Pastor Jules Leo


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