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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: "MR. MICHAEL L CORBAT" <kakinoaya@docomonet.jp>
Reply-To: "MR. MICHAEL L CORBAT" <michaellcorbat43@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2020 23:40:21 +0900
Subject: Attention Dear Beneficiary,

This is to let you know that United Nation has advised that all compensation fund will be paid using Citibank online platform because alot of fraudsters are using different types of name to scam innocent people's.
Right now the only person in charge of your compensation fund is Michael L Corbat and he will create online account on your behalf and credit your total fund of $3.9 million and the only fee this transaction will cost you is $125. We apologies for the delay of your payment and all the inconveniences we might put you through, while we were having some minor problems with our payment system which in all case not meeting up with fund beneficiary payments, we apologies once again.

>From the records of outstanding compensation payment with federal Government of U.S.A/Ecowas Court and Citibank your name was discovered as next on the list out of the 11 outstanding beneficiaries who have not yet received their payments during the 3 years tenure of the previous administration in office please bear with us for making this initial contact through email.

Your advise to reconfirm this information below for immediate opening of your account

Full Name:...........
Home Address:..........
Phone number:...........
Identify Card or Driver's license.........
Email:............
Occupation:...........
Gender:..........

Next of Kin

Full Name...................
Home Address............
Phone number:...........
Email:....................
Occupation:..............
Relationship.........
Gender:.............

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