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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: COMPENSATION FUNDS PAYMENT <someserge259@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2022 07:11:11 -0800
Subject: COMPENSATION FUNDS PAYMENT

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Dear Beneficiary;
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 the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and FBI. We have
been able to track down so many of this scam artist in various parts
of African countries which includes (Nigeria, Republic of Benin,
Ghana, Cameroon and Senegal) and they are all in Government custody
now, they will appear at International Criminal Court (ICC) Hague
(Netherlands) soon for Criminal/Fraud Justice.

During the course of our investigation, we have been able to recover
so much money from these scam artists. The United Nations Anti-Crime
Commission and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have ordered the
money recovered from the Scammers to be shared among 100 Lucky people
around the World for compensation. This Email/Letter is been directed
to you because your email address was found in one of the Scam Artists
file and computer hard-disk during our investigation, maybe you have
been scammed or not, you are therefore being compensated with the sum
of $, 1.500, 000.00 USD (One Million Five Hundred Thousand United
State Dollars).

Since your email address appeared among the lucky beneficiaries who
will receive a compensation funds, we have arranged your payment to be
paid to you through ATM VISA CARD. An ATM Visa Card will be issued in
your name and your $1,500,000.00 USD will be loaded into it, and
deliver it to your postal address with the Pin Number, as to enable
you withdrawal your funds from any Bank ATM Machine worldwide. Contact
the ATM CARD Payment Department; Dr. Chris George. Tel: +226 67232501,
you can whatsapp him with this number for more details, E-mail:
cfcubaatmcollectorr@collector.org
Thanks for your corporation.

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