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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: "Charles Ubaka" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <charlesubaka22@yahoo.co.jp>
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 16:33:13 +0300
Subject: Read and Reply

 
International Remittances Dept,
Central Bank of Nigeria ,
Abuja-Nigeria
 
 
Dear Sir,
I write to solicit your utmost confidence, knowing too well that we have neither known nor met each other before, but because you and the Late Mr. Eddy Smith are from the same country. Having searched through the internet, from where I got your email address,
I hereby request that you become the Next of Kin to the late customer of our bank, Late Mr.Eddy Smith,a foreign Oil Merchant and Construction Engineer, who died here in West Africa and abandoned a fixed deposit of Fifteen Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars (USD $ 15.500.000.00), without a specified next of kin to inherit the deposit at the time of his death.(Maybe he did this because of the fact that he was into crude oil deals called "Oil bunkering" here in west Africa).
 
My name is Charles Ubaka, I work with the International Remittances  Department of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), I am the accounts officer to the Late Eddy Smith in our bank. I saw a file in respect of payments that have been abandoned and unclaimed.
After my investigation to know why the funds were not claimed, I discovered that the file belongs to Mr Eddy Smith whom I was incharge of his account in my and subsequent investigations by me proved that the owner of this fund(Mr Eddy Smith) is late and no body has come to claim the fund .
 
 
In the financial Laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the holding bank is required to repatriate any abandoned fund by a foreigner if nobody comes to claim the said funds after four (4) years of the confirmation of the death of the depositor.
For the past four years, all the effort of our Customer Services Department to trace any relative of the Late Mr. Eddy Smith has proved abortive.
I do not want this funds to go into the hands of our corrupt government officials, who have embezzled our national funds all these years or being shared by the directors of the bank according to the banking and financial sector regulations in Nigeria or being
converted by the bank as unclaimed bill.
 
My interest in this abandoned deposit are as follows:
 
 
1) To see that this abandoned deposit is not handed over to the corrupt government officials or as earlier stated in the above paragraph.
2) To make you the Next of Kin to the late Mr. Eddy Smith and whom he has WILLED the said deposit before his death.
3) To ensure that the deposited funds is transferred to you as your INHERITANCE.
4) To ensure that my own share of it is invested wisely in your country in any viable area of your country's economy.
 
 
Bear in mind that the entire transaction is risk - free and legitimate since the funds will be coming to you as THE UTMOST BENEFICIARY of the funds
If this proposal is acceptable by you, respond to me ASAP but if not acceptable by you, do not take advantage of it to betray me.
 
If acceptable by you, send me your private telephone and fax numbers for me to call you for detailed
discussion. Please do send your replies to my private mail box:charlesubaka22@yahoo.co.jp
Regards
Dr. Charles Ubaka
private mail box:charlesubaka22@yahoo.co.jp
 
 

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