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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: "Ms.AMINA MOHAMMED" <abrahamaguidji@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mailaminamohammed92@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2022 13:06:06 -0800
Subject: SCAM VICTIMS COMPENSATION

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To your urgent Attention

This is to official inform you that the meeting we have been having
with Mr. David R. Malpass,The World Bank President which includes all
the current serving Presidents of Seven continents for the past Three
(3) Weeks finally ended two days ago and the issue discussed on the
Congress was on how to Disburse and Compensate all the Scam Victims
out of the total sum of $116,000,000.00 (One Hundred and Sixteen
Million US Dollars) that was so far RECOVERED from the arrested
Fraudsters.

We are contacting you following the reports we received from Special
Anti-Fraud International Monitoring Group which submitted your
Name/email to us and you have been allocated with a sum of
US$2,000,000.00 (Two Million US Dollars only) as your Compensation.

You are therefore advised to contact our Representative Agent.
Ms.AMINA MOHAMMED who is in position to release your Compensation to
you with the email below:

Contact Name: Ms.AMINA MOHAMMED
Email Address: mailaminamohammed92@gmail.com

Yours Sincerely,
Deputy Secretary-General
UNITED NATION

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