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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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Fraud email example:

From: "mg note" <mgnote53@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mgnote20@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 19:00:57 +0100
Subject: ARE YOU AWARE???VERY URGENT

CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA
INTERNATIONAL REMITTANCE DEPARTMENT
CORPORATE HEAD QUARTERS.
TINUBU SQUARE, LAGOS.
OUR REF: CBN/IRD/CBX/021/07
CONTRACT #: MAV/NNPC/FGN/MIN/009 )
A/C#: 32780612669g8
SWIFT CODE: BPH KPL PK.
TEL: +23-48023-687-555

ATTN: HONOURABLE CONTRACTOR

RE/ IMMEDIATE CONTRACT PAYMENT NOTIFICATION /FINAL NOTICE


How are you and your entire family,we hope you are all in a good present state of mind and health. We are pleased to inform that your contract payment worth of USD$7.3 Million (Seven million, Three Hundred thousand united states dollars only) is next on the foreign contract payment schedule for this second quarter of the year 2007. The Federal Ministry of
Finance has forwarded to this office, the names of the successful people who have completed their contracts with the relevant authorities and their funds now due for payment.

From the records of outstanding contractors whose fund is due for payment with the Federal Government of Nigeria, your informations and company contact was discovered to be next on the list of the outstanding contractors who have not yet received their payments as endorsed from the office of the presidency.

It might also interest you to know that we have already been contacted on your behalf by one Mr. David Henshaw who presented all the necessary documentations evidencing your claim purpoted to have been signed by you prior to the release of your part payment of USD$2,000,000.00 (Two million united states dollers only) into your Bank account as nominated, so we will like to know if trully you were the person that did authorise him to claim your fund.

I also wish to inform you that your payment has been fully processed and now due for disbursement to you and to this effect, we will like you to reconfirm back to this office if trully you were the person that did appointed the above named person to handle this project on your behalf so as to avoid any irregularities as your payment is now ready to be wired into your Bank account as nominated based on the urgent instructions which we received this morning from the office of the presidency.

Please we will also like you to re-confirm to this office the below informations for safe transaction and also for future reference and documentations:

1) Your Full Name

2) Contact address

3) Phone, Fax And Mobile #

4) Company Name, (if any) Position And Address.

5) Profession, Age And Marital Status.

6) Copy Of your Int'l Passport/Driving license

We will start processing your payment file upon receipt of the above mentioned informations from you for subsequent release of your funds to you as designated. I will further advise that you hasten up on your claim as we will soon be rounding up contractor's payment for this first quarter of the year 2007.

Having said all this, we urge you to get back to this office immediately for further advise and clarifications so as to enable us serve you better and should incase you care to speak with me directly, here is my personal cell number: 23-48023-687-555 as I will ernestly be waiting to hear from you prior to this matter. Thank you very much for your anticipated Co-operation in advance.

Congratulations in advance !

Best Regards.

Prof. Charles C. Soludo
Executive Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)


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