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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: Detective Emmanuel Akomaye <emmanuelakomay101@superposta.com>
Reply-To: Detective Emmanuel Akomaye <emmanuelakomaye@superposta.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 20:54:40 +0800 (CST)
Subject: RE: VERY IMPORTANT NOTIFICATION













ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRIMES COMMISSION
5, FOMELLA STREET, OFF ADETOKUNBO ADEMOLA CRESCENT,
WUSE II, ABUJA, NIGERIA

Attention: Beneficiary,

You are being contacted today dated (11th of October 2 013) because we want to advise you of the status of your fund payment case. Recently there was a court decision that favored you in getting your funds back from international banks that are withholding your funds. Although you are hearing from us for the first time, we have been working very hard for you and making progress on our research on why international banks has failed to completely credit funds to international owners/beneficiaries account.

We have also taken time to review your online email communication messages on your unsuccessful transactions with most international contract award winning organizations, and other foreign banks. We wish to let you know that we have communicated with most of these foreign banking institutions that withheld most international payments to individual accounts so as to find out why these funds were withheld, the source of the funds and a final solution to this problem.

Conclusively, we discovered that most withheld and/or unpaid funds which originated from lottery organizations, international trading company’s awarded contract funds and deceased personals were not properly filed for international fund payment to its beneficiary account by the fund beneficiary approved to receive such funds. Such transfer suspension was placed on these funds because majority of these international fund remittance/transfer of over the total sum of $500,000 and above to private European/Non European residence accounts abroad, usually carried out by foreign Banks, Private or Commercial Courier Companies were never properly recorded by the paying institution for future file reference/assessment by the International Mon etary Fund and the Financial Services Authority.

In joint alliance with the Financial Services Authority, the HM Treasury & the International Mon etary Fund (IMF) to resolve this issue, we wish to let you know that an approval has been given in your favor to receive the sum of $5,500,000.00 (Five Million and Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars), and such payment has been placed under the custody to the HM Treasury in Nigeria to mon itor the transfer with Central Bank of Nigeria.

Through the assistance of the International Criminal Police Organization (ICPO) to investigate and release suspended, withheld and/or unpaid Inheritance/Award Winning/Contract funds to its beneficiaries account abroad, we were able to gain an approval authorization letter from the International Mon etary Fund (IMF) which stated that these funds will be released by these European and other foreign banks to its beneficiary on proper confirmation of its claim. In response to this decision, we got the International Finance Auditors to apply backward in time so that you can use the violation of the existing law to get your awarded funds on time.

By the vir tue of the provision of the law which confer on us powers to advocate, adjudicate suspend and authorize an immediate transfer of your funds internationally, we hereby state emphatically and without prejudice that should there be any information that may succeed your application for unclaimed awarded fund release that are currently deposited in most foreign banks in Europe, Asia and in A fri ca, please do not hesitate to provide the information to the Central Bank of Nigeria so that we will know how to help you receive your funds.

Important Notice: Your inability to make this clarification for fund transfer with the International Mon etary Fund (IMF) will continue to suspend your chances of receiving any international payment directed to your local bank account from any foreign bank until this clarification is made.

Failure to properly apply for the fund release for transfer will nullify your chances of receiving your unclaimed funds, and this fund will be confiscated and made to be forfeited under the Mon ey Laundering and Other Financial Crime Prohibition Act of 2003. so for more clarification and details on how you will receive your find without any further interrogation you are advice to get back to us within 24hours.

Yours Faithfully,

Detective Emmanuel Akomaye
Head Internet Scam Investigation and Information Group
Economical and Financial Crime Commission

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