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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: "Yayaele" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <frn.arv@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 01:50:55 -0700
Subject: PAYMENT ALERT!!!

OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT. GOOD-LUCK JONATHAN, GCFR
PRESIDENT AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE ARMED FORCES
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA
ASO ROCK VILLA ABUJA.
Ref: FRN/01-P/2010
DATE: 8TH SEPT, 2010

FROM THE DESK OF:
PRESIDENT Good-luck Jonathan,

Sir/Madam,

SUB: PRESIDENTIAL GAZETTE/NOTIFICATION OF PAYMENT:

I am Good-luck Ebele Jonathan GCFR, President and commander in chief of Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. I wish to
apologize un-behalf of the government and people of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to all our foreign claimants who until date have
neither received a part payment or full payment of their entitlement.

During the last meeting of the G8 in Canada and the G20 meetings recently during which my country was on the list of the agenda based on series of petitions against her to the International communities and based on this, I led a delegation made up of the Officials of the Nigerian Government to London where we signed a memorandum of understanding and a standard agreement promising to offset the Nigerian enormous debt burden within this remaining part of the year.

During this agreement to offset this indebtedness, it will be recalled that my government was fined to the tune of several millions of United States Dollars for contravening section 17 of the International payment Act that established the International transaction and payment relationship.

As a Government, we have discovered that most of these pending international payments came as a result of claims through Inheritance, Lottery, Compensation and Contract Funds which were either done in Nigeria or the payments routed to Nigeria by the responsible parties and partners. We also discovered that 90% of this payments has not been effected due to the fact that either the documentation is incomplete or falsified, or the payment is still pending as a result of the owners not being able to clear some legal charges demanded by the payment department, some are because the owners were dealing with unauthorized agents thereby revealing the payment details and complicating the release of their fund and as a result, we had to stop the payment, while some are still pending based on the fact that the owners are late and the next of Kin is yet to apply for the release of the benefactor's entitlement.

Having paid our fine to the International community during the meeting of the agreement which saw the secretary of the United Nations Mr. Ban Ki-Moon signing for the International community and Mrs. Hillary Clinton signing for the United states of America while myself and the president of ECOWAS signed for Nigeria, we therefore urge you to come up with your claim details making reference to your payment amount, type and year, send your detailed information like names, address, telephone and fax numbers and a copy of your identification including your employer's name and address with position so that we can expedite actions on the release of your payment.

In this regards, we have appointed an independent payment agent to handle this payment and you will be paid based on their payment
discretion and you can send those needed details above to them with the below information:

NAME: VIA FINANCE GROUP
E-MAIL: viaxfinance@gmail.com
TEL: +234-704-166-6189
TEL/FAX: +234(1) 851-2495
CONTACT PERSON: J.P DUKE

NB: This message must be responded to with this message returned as urgent as it demands and any response not received after 10 days of receipt will never be treated and also note that you are under my presidential ultimatum to communicate with the VIA FINANCE GROUP only.

Alh. Ahmed Yayele. Good-luck E. Jonathan
Secretary to the Federation PRESIDENT
Federal Republic of Nigeria, GCFR (FRN)



Cc: ECOWAS COMMUNITY
Cc: METROPOLITAN POLICE UK
Cc: USA HOME LAND SECURITY & FBI
Cc: WORLD BANK, IMF AND PARIS CLUB
Cc: EFCC AND THE UNITED NATIONS

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