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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: "MRS.SHIRLEY HARPER" <f.willjr01@gmail.com>
Reply-To: aileenbill03@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2021 11:30:09 +0100
Subject: ATTENTION

Attention,

This is to inform you that we have been working towards the
eradication of fraudsters and scam Artists in 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 African countries which includes (Nigeria,
Republic of Benin, Ghana and Senegal with Togo ) and they are all in
Government custody now, they will appear at International Criminal
Court (ICC) soon for Justice.

During the course of investigation, they were able to recovered some
funds from these scam artists and IMF organization have ordered the
funds recovered to be shared among the 25 Lucky people listed around
the World as a compensation. This notice is been directed to you
because your email address was found in one of the scam Artists file
and computer hard-disk while the investigation, maybe you have been
scammed. You are therefore being compensated with sum of ($950,000.00
US Dollars Nine Hundred and Fifty Thousand United State Dollars) valid
into an (international cheque or ATM Visa Card).

Kindly chose one option here and get back to this office immediately

OPTION 1: ATM VISA CARD
OPTION 2: CHEQUE

Since your email address is among the lucky beneficiaries who will
receive a compensation funds, we will arrange your payment to be paid
to you through Bank international Cheque or ATM Visa Card and deliver
to your address with as to enable you cash your money in any bank in
your country, until all the funds are exhausted. The Bank
international Cheque or ATM Visa Card with Security Numbers shall be
delivered to you via courier Service, DHL OR FedEx depending your
choice.

Now contact Barrister in Cote d'Ivoire, his Name is Barrister Benson Coleman

EMAIL: info.eachamber@lawyer.com
EMAIL: infoeachamber@yahoo.com

Please we need this information to be filed and send it to him
immediately to prove yourself to him as we have told him.

FULL NAME:
ADDRESS:
CITY:
STATE:
ZIP CODE:
DIRECT CONTACT NUMBER:
OCCUPATION:

We advise you to stop all the communications with everyone regarding
your payment as we have short listed to deliver to you and now urge
you to comply and receive your Bank Cheque or ATM Visa Card. Thanks
for your understanding as you follow instructions while I wait to hear
from you today.

Congratulations once again.

Yours in Services
MRS.SHIRLEY

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