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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: helenubuka <helenubuka50@gmail.com>
Reply-To: helenubuka@rocketmail.com
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 22:35:11 +0200
Subject: YOUR PAYMENT DISKETTE

Dear.Friend,
I do not know how you will take this letter but i am doing this based on my
Christian faith and what tomorrow will be.I am (Mrs) Helen Ubuka,the
office assistant to the Central Bank Governor.I am not telling you this to
impress you or to gain favor from you,rather i am doing this to save you
from further damage and pains.I have done this to two people already,though
they betrayed me at the end.

Your account that was Block from my wick Governor because they are using
some of your fund to give out loan and do their own Business every month
they do get profit from your funds. i look at this it pains me that
is reason why i decided to contact you secret if you like co-operate
with me or you forget it i am not begging you for if you can following
my instruction, i have open the account and loaded your funds into the
diskette should be part of your fund $5,Million Dollars which we are
transferring.

>Before I proceed,you must promise me first that nobody will know of this
and after you are satisfied with my job,you can help me in whatever way the
spirit of God directs you. This is very secret ,i overheard Professor
Charles Soludo and Dr. Lamido sanusi saying that they will make you
spendand pay much fees till you are tired and abandoned your contract
Inheritance funds for them to later divert to an already joint account
using part of it doing there own business. Please do not pay anything to
them again regarding the release of your fund because the President of
Nigeria and the members of his Federal Executive Council have endorsed all
your fund clearance documents and your account is already activated which
you can access at any time.It is just that some of our bank executives are
very greedy and they have created avenues to steal your money even when
they know that the situation is very critical. Myself and another Christian
colleague in the
office can assist you only if you can agree with our pro The proposal is
that you should not allow anybody know of this as that will land us into
serious trouble and may even take our lives.If you venture to pay that
money they are demanding from you at the moment,you will continue to pay
until you are tired and they will convert the money to their own private
joint account in Peru or possibly keep it in a suspense account that will
be yielding interest for them as they used it for their business.

Now we have perfectly pulled out the Computer Diskette Gazette that
contains your payment information with the access code transfer and how
you can log on and transfer the money from your CBN account to your bank
account online through your computer.

We are ready to send it to you immediately.PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE our job is
on the line.I am only 34 years married with two kids ( A Boy and A Girl)
and I don't want to ruin my future or die at this early age. I do not make
calls on transactions like this due to the sensitive nature of this
transaction and my position with the CBN Everything should by email for
now.

If this arrangement is OK by you please reply now and we will send the
diskette to you through TNT Courier and all these nonsense will stop and
you will happily transfer your fund to your account by yourself which i
shall give you more direction booklet how you login with the code
through your computer and start transferring your money with your
computer is very easy. if you want me to come and do it by myself fine
over their in your country home, not here if i do it here cbn
governor will know. i wouldn't mine to resign from my work and meet
with you over in your country do the transfer with you, but is an easy
transfer for you to do it by yourself because transfer Manual
direction booklet and the code will be coming with the Courier i will
package it secretly so that my airport customs agent will not know the
contents. I will declare it CARD GIFT FOR MY FRIEND BEING YOU.
Software -123 RF- Diskette
payment.


Regards.

(Mrs) Helen Ubuka

(Office assistant to the Central Bank Governor)

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