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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: Info Office <infoofficeeng3@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 9 May 2022 12:08:53 +0100
Subject: Very Urgent.

Attention:


This is to officially inform you that we have written to you before
without getting respond from you and we believe that our previous mail
did not get to you therefore we write you again.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 etc) 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 50 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 $18,000,000
(Eighteen Million, United State Dollars).

Since your email address is among the lucky beneficiaries who will
receive a compensation funds, we have arranged your payment to be paid
to you through ATM VISA CARD and deliver to your postal address with
the Pin Numbers as to enable you withdrawal maximum of $10,000.00 on
each withdrawal from any Bank ATM Machine of your choice, until all
the funds are exhausted.The ATM Card with Security Pin Numbers shall
be delivered to you .

You are well aware many foreigners have invested thousands of United
States Dollars into Africa transactions in Hopeless Dreams to have
none of them become a reality Right now,as directed by UNITED NATION
AND WORLD BANK (EU), We have agreed with the Nigeria Government that
Five Million United State Dollars Only would be paid to you via ATM
card which is cash-able in any ATM machine in anywhere in the world.
don't forget to reconfirm your following information.


1. Your Full Name:
2. Address Where You want us to Send Your ATM Card
3) Your Full Address:
4) Your Contact Telephone and Fax No:
5) Your Profession, Age and Marital Status:
6) Any Valid Form of Your Identification/Driven License:

We advice 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 ATM Card funds.Thanks for your
understanding as you follow instructions while I wait to hear from you
today.Please send your reply to our alternative e-mail address as
follows:()

Yours in Services
Rev. Reginald Okoh.
(HEAD DEPT: Anti scammers program).

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