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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: "Finance" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <wwwcfd@yandex.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 17:40:48 -0400
Subject: PAYMENT OF EXTERNAL DEBTS BY THE NEWLY ELECTED PRESIDENT OF FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA

Central Finance Department
Ahmadu Bello Way,
Central Business District
Abuja, Nigeria
PMB 14, Abuja, Nigeria
Phone: +2348039141109

Attn:

PAYMENT OF EXTERNAL DEBTS BY THE NEWLY ELECTED PRESIDENT OF FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA
Going by the recent economic reform of Federal Executive Council of the newly sworn in President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, General MohammaduBuhari (Rtd.) on the payment of all External Debts.
Gen. Buhari on a National broadcast promised immediate payment of all Foreign debts with the accrued interest incurred by the 1st and 2nd past administrations. The Federal Executive Council on this note has implemented the payment started from the 3rd day of the president’s speech.
However, we are contacting you base on this as your name was one among the lists submitted to this Executive Council to cross check your details for certainty to avoid misappropriation of fund, namely:

Full Name:
Address:

for compares and reconfirmation of what we have here in our list.
As soon as we receive this details you should expect the accrued interest of 20% of your total fund payment of (USD$10,000,000.00) dollars, totaling (USD2,000,000.00) dollars immediately through either Bank to Bank Transfer or Draft, whichever one of the two means preferred and provided.
We look forward to hearing from you so that letter of payment advice will be given to you.


Daniel Nwaobia
Permanent Secretary (CFD)

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