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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: "ANDERSON EBOKUN" (may be fake)
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2012 15:48:10 +0100
Subject: RE: UNPAID CONTRACT SUM


NOTE: THE CONTENT IN THIS MESSAGE CONTAINS CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION AND IT’S INTENDED SOLELY FOR THE ATTENTION AND USE OF THE NAMED/ADDRESSEE(S). IT MUST NOT BE DISCLOSED TO ANY PERSON(S) WITHOUT AUTHORIZATION. IF YOU ARE NOT THE INTENDED RECIPIENT, OR A PERSON RESPONSIBLE FOR DELIVERING IT TO THE INTENDED RECIPIENT, YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO AND MUST NOT DISCLOSES COPY, DISTRIBUTE, OR RETAIN THIS MESSAGE OR ANY PART OF IT.” IF RECEIVED BY ERROR KINDLY DISREGARD

RE: UNPAID CONTRACT SUM

After the ten man committee with the national assembly and act of parliament in March 28, 2011 an agreement was reached to alleviate and mobilize a fresh office under the Nigeria National Petroleum Cooperation (N.N.P.C) to handle every foreign contractual payment. The office of which I ENG. ANDERSON EBOKUN solely appointed to carry out the payment along side with 21 man secret agent which had now formed a formidable investigation panel committee to enhance that every payment is carried out genuinely, has currently summoned courage to engage in investigating your payment file that was falsely detected in my office couples of hours ago simply because of your continuous fraudulent business transaction with your local friends in Nigeria.

However I am extremely positive that by now you have given up every single hope of ever receiving your funds into your nominated bank account in your country despite all the concrete promises/false evidences that you were given by your Nigerian partners stating that as soon as you perform certain statutory obligations regarding the finalization of your transaction you would finally receive the complete remittance of your funds into your nominated bank account, but despite all their promises you are constantly been required to comply to new statutory obligations for new problems that arises then suddenly stops your payment and now you are beginning to wonder if the transaction you have with your Nigerian friends is real or not?

Confidently with my present state and power, I have tow concrete message for you of which only one would be useful to you. Firstly, you will never in anyway receive your fund as long as you live if you continue to cooperate with your fellow Nigerians who claimed to be government official or whatsoever. As you would only keep spending more and more money and receiving the constant continuous unfruitful failure results that you have been achieving and receiving from them. Secondly you would without single doubt and honestly receive your fund swiftly with my present power, influence and highly assistance only and when you are fully without two mind willing and ready to cooperate and completely adhere to my instructions strictly and also accept what you may refer to as apparent conditions. As my office now monitors and controls the affairs of all banks and financial institutions in Nigeria concerned with the payment of all N.N.P.C. and Federal government of Nigeria owed foreign contractors who have been found e

Today your payment file was submitted on my desk along with other contractor’s payment file that has been dormant for long for your name to be included in the payment list of eligible contractors who were to receive payment for this new third quarter of contractor’s payment. I performed the necessary scrutinization of your payment file with the involvement of the 21 man secrete agent investigation panel committee as well as others and found out that you were not the real beneficiary of your funds as your details were maneuvered by vetting computer, and inserted in the position of the real beneficiary of the funds. So I cancelled your payment file and stamped “NOT ELLIGIBLE FOR PAYMENT"

But not until recently I discovered that you were constantly been deceived out of ignorance by your Nigerian partners to pay fees to imposters claiming they can assist you in every means to receive your funds all in act to defraud you of your hard earned money, and now you have been frustrated because you have kept paying money for what you don’t know or have knowledge about via western union, money gram/bank to these fearless harden and extremely wicked imposters. Still you didn’t receive your funds and because of your frustration and all the money you have lost, I have decided to intervene into your matter and assist you in receiving your funds as swiftly as I can, provided you adhere to my instructions strictly.

Now to assist you I have decided to indulge in a separate act from that of investigation panel committee by deciding to include your name in the third quarter of foreign contractor’s payment list of eligible contractors who would be receiving their payments for this quarter, so that you can receive the immediate remittance of your funds into your nominated bank account upon your wiliness to adhere to my instructions strictly and accept my conditions below;

1. You would give me NILL (o) % of your total funds BUT, you must agree to make me a director/manager of your intended investment with your fund upon the receipt of your funds into your nominated bank account. Note: the above term is not negotiable since I did not demand any percent from your money. I completely regard your effort therefore I will not request financial compensation from you except that I would manager your company under any prevailing circumstance provided I abide to your norm. (Details on this agreement shall be sorted out later)

2. This transaction must be kept top secret forever (even after you have received your fund) from all your Nigerian partners as I do not want any stain on my personality in this country, and there should be no third parties as most problem associated with your fund release were caused by your agents or representative.

3. You must adhere to every instruction that I’ll be giving to you immediately with no doubt or disbelief as I would fail in assisting you in receiving your funds if you fail to adhere to every instruction that I’ll be giving to you.

Now If you AGREE with my conditions and fully ready to adhere to my instructions strictly thereby receiving your fund, I want you to send an acknowledgement to this letter to my email address: anderson_ebokun_internal_affairs@live.co.uk ,and call me on my private telephone number +234-805-781-9371 so that I can relate instructions to you for the successful remittance of your funds into your nominated bank account.

I wait for your immediate response to this letter and your telephone call.

Sincerely,
Eng. Anderson Ebokun
Group Managing Director
Internal Affairs (N.N.P.C.)
anderson_ebokun_internal_affairs@live.co.uk

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