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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: =?big5?q?CENTRAL=20BANK=20OF=20NIGERIA?= <info2_governor_4office@yahoo.com.hk>
Reply-To: cbn_bank1@rocketmail.com
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:15:34 +0800 (HKT)
Subject: FINAL VERIFICATION OF CLAIM


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- Attention:Honorable Beneficiary,Following the protest oftheInternational Community,the World Bank,IMFand the instruction by the President and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of Federal Republic of Nigeria (Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar'Adua) that all outstanding foriegn debts especially next of kin/Contract payment should be released to the beneficiaries forthwith unconditionally.I wish to inform you that your next of kin/contract payment of $10.5 MILLION which was previously approved, was revoked for so many complications. The reason is because some person(s) are laying claim to it and has come up with their own account establishing that you directed them to present different account for the transfer of this fund.This why your funds was not transferred as you expected,and because of this my Government has been receiving complaints even after informing all next of kin/contractors that every beneficiary must go through re-validation exercise before his/her payment is made straight from our apex bank.Below is the account information they brought which is currently under investigation and for yourconfirmation.National City Bank, Address:One East Fourth Street, Cincinnati, Ohio USA:SWIFT CODE: NATCUS 33;Account Name: JMS, INC.;Account No. 0156168;Beneficiary: Johnson Mortgage Services, Inc Your are required to respond swiftly to this mail as the re validation process must be finished before the 15th of Oct 09, to ascertain the eligible beneficiary of the stated payment.Kindly send in your valid Account details & the re-validation fee to enable us transfer your fund.Thankyou,Regards,Thank you,Regards,Mrs.Victoria Tunde Email:cbn_bank1@rocketmail.com,Tel+234-8084958033


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