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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: "MrsJoyBenson" <MrsJoyBenson@pop.odysseydsl.co.uk>
Reply-To: ubapjplc@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2020 06:00:03 +0200
Subject: Attn: The owner of this email address

Attention Dear sir / madam,

I am Mrs. Joy Benson Secretary to Mr.Williams White the manager to United Bank for Africa Plc. The International Monetary Funds (IMF) with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) through our Bank has approved your email address among the 2020 Global Compensation and Foreign Exchange Award Unit,listed to be Compensated with sum of (Two Million and Seven Hundred Thousand US Dollars) You are advised to reply back with your details such as, Your full name ......, Country ........, Age......... Resident address........ with your occupation....... and Telephone number .........,so I can give you more details about this and how to receive your Compensation Entitlement Funds within 4 working days. Therefore, you are hereby advised to stop further dealings with some non-officials impersonating in various government parastatals as this is an illegal act and this has to stop if you so wish to receive your compensation, get back to us immediately you receive this email. This is very important for your compensation please you are advice to contact our manager Mr. Williams White with his telephone line +2217087444011 and our bank email address ubapjplc@gmail.com Thanks your sincere Concern Mrs. Joy Benson

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