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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: "Alhj Musa Usman" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <revndstevenmorgan@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 14:27:50 -0700
Subject: YOUR PAYMENT VIA -GOLD ATM CARD. (UN)

Central Bank of Nigeria
Tinubu Square, Victoria Island,
Lagos - Nigeria
Office of the Deputy Governor
From the Desk of:
ALHAJI. MUSA USMAN
 
Attention: Beneficiary,
                       YOUR PAYMENT VIA -GOLD ATM  CARD.
 
Due to the petitions received by the UN, I Secretary-General Ban ki-moon from all over the continent in regards to the fraudulent activities going on in the West Africa sub-region with security's agent and diplomats who has been delaying people's funds, consignment and valuables in their custody and demand outrageous fees to get their consignment released to them.
 
We have been having a meeting for the passed 3 months which ended 2 days ago with the former Secretary-General (Hon. Kofi Annan) to the UNITED NATIONS. However, we went to the African head quarters in NIGERIA on the 15TH JULY 2009 and set up this committee with sole aim of settling all these anomalies and due to that we are contacting you today in that regards.
 
This meeting was first held on the 8th of April 2003. You can view this page for your perusal: http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2003/ik344.doc.htm
 
This email is to all people that have been scammed in any part of the world, the UNITED NATIONS have agreed to compensate them with the sum of USD$8,300,000.00 This includes every foreign contractors that may have not received their contract sum, and people that have had an unfinished transaction or international businesses that failed due to Government problems etc.
 
We found your name in our list and that is why we are contacting you, these have been agreed upon and have been duly signed.
 
 
 
 
The Central Bank of Nigeria, (C.B.N), working in relationship with Zenith Bank Plc, has concluded to issue you a GOLD CARD with which you can access your Star prize /beneficiary amount$8,300,000.000 This card center will send you an ATM card which you will use to withdraw your money in any ATM machine in any part of the world, but the maximum is Twenty Thousand United States Dollars ($20,000.00) per day. So if you like to receive your fund in this way, please let us know by contacting the ATM payment department and also send the following information as listed below:
 
 
 
1. Full name and full country name
 
2. Phone and fax number
 
3. Address where you want them to send the ATM card to (P.O box is not acceptable)
 
4. Your age and current occupation.
 
You are advice to contact the director of ATM CARD payment officer for more directives,
 
Director, ATM payment department Apostle Dr Alex Boma
 
Email address......chiefdralex_boma@yahoo.es
 
 
 
The ATM card payment center was mandated to issue out $8,300,000.00 as part payment for this fiscal year 2008 to you so bear with us. Also for your information, you have to stop any further communication with any other person(S) or office(S) to avoid any hitches in receiving your payment.
 
 
 
Note that because of impostors, we hereby issued you our code of conduct, which is (ATM-811) so you have to indicate this code when contacting the card center by using it as your subject.
 
We anticipate your total compliance to this message immediately.
 
YOURS SINCERELY,
 
 
ALHAJI. MUSA USMAN
Office of the Deputy Governor
 
 

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