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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: " PRESIDENT GOOD LUCK JONATHAN" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <morgan_peters@yahoo.cn>
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 13:18:57 +0100
Subject: RE:PRESIDENTIAL REQUEST OF ALL CITIZEN AND NON CITIZENS PAYMENT

OFFICE OF THE SENATE HOUSE
FEDERA REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA
COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN PAYMENT
(RESOLUTION PANEL ON CONTRACT PAYMENT)
IKOYI-LAGOS NIGERIA.

Our Ref: FGN /SNT/STB

ATTN: BENEFICIARY,

PRESIDENTIAL REQUEST OF ALL CITIZENS AND NON CITIZEN INHERITANCE FUND VIA ATM CARD AND CONSIGNMENT.

In close consultation with the World Bank, IMF and the European Union(EU), this is to notify you of your enlistment as a beneficiary of a recent Debt Management and Settlement Forum organized on the status of global arrangement to have your beneficiary fund settled once and for all. Of course, In the hope that you must have been aware of the past financial leakages in the European foreign inheritance payment system,and frustrations associated there from in your last attempt to claim your fund, fund of beneficiaries (like your self) was subjected to unnecessary bureaucratic bottlenecks in lieu of claiming funds due to them.

The World Body,having solicited and received the cooperation of Nigerian Presidency, in harmonizing the sequence of payments, have discovered from records of outstanding foreign inheritance fund of beneficiaries due them, that your name and payment has been with held and remain unpaid as a result of such bottleneck. On the prompting of this finding, I wish to officially notify you that all aspects of your payment claim is being harmonized, enabling payment to be released to you as urgently as you act on the instructions of this mail.

Consequently, UNION BANK Nigeria Plc has been directed by the World Body to off set these outstanding debts, using ATM Swift Card payment arrangement. Already,a total amount of USD500 Million has been provided to the bank for this purpose and it is on first come first serve.

Also we have been inform that you are still dealing with the none officials in the bank entire attempt to secure the release of your fund to you. We wish to advice you that such an illegal act like this have to stop if you wish to receive your payment since we have decide to bring a solution to your problem. Right now we have arranged your payment through our SWITF CARD PAYMENT CENTRE that is the latest instruction from MR.PRESIDENT, UMARU YAR'ADUA (GCFR) FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA AND FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (FBI).


With this arrangement, I wish to inform you that UNION BANK Nigeria Plchas been instructed to issue in your name an Atm Cash Card with the valued amount of US$7.5million.In paying this amount to you,please note that it is without Prejudice to your original inheritance sum.

Rather, it is a stop-gap payment arrangement put in place by the World Body to on the one hand ensure that you receive part of your fund, while on the other hand ensure that the process is smooth and without any form of stress whatsoever, whereas a comprehensive arrangement shall be made in future to pay off the remaining fund due to you.

However, we are worried with the counter information received from one Mr. Casey Collins , purporting to be from your directive, with express instruction to activate the ATM Cash Card for release of fund to his name a bank account in the "Cayman Islands" Obviously, we are hesitant to honor this
instruction as it were, and would request that you clarify same upon your contact with UNION BANK Nigeria Plc . In addition to that, you should provide the bank with the following details to forestall any mistake of issuing the ATM Card with the wrong information already submitted by Mr. Casey Collins


1.Full Names:.................
2.Address:....................
3.Sex and Age:................
4.Occupation:..................
5.Direct Phone Number:..........
6.Resident City:.................
7.Beneficiary name:....................
8.Mode of idetification:................


Believing that this arrangement will suit your condition and expectations, we will therefore request for your expedited response to avoid any more delay. Your response should be directed to Afribank Nigeria Plc, MR MORGAN PETER Director of Atm Payment Dept through his official email address

CONTACT:MR MORGAN PETER
Email: morgan_peters@yahoo.cn
Phone:+2347081518691

Your file reference code for your payment is ATM/LAG/NG/22#01 and should be quoted in your contact mail to the bank and also be use as your subject otherwise the bank will not recognize or process your ATM Swift Payment.

GOOD LUCK JONATHAN
PRESIDENT
(Federal Republic of Nigeria)
info@goodluckpayment2010.ng.

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