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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: <consulatedesk@qq.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 16:41:21 -0800
Subject: YOU HAVE 1 UNREAD MESSAGE

FROM MR. IBRAHIM LAMORDE. (CHAIRMAN)
ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRIMES COMMISSION
NIGERIA INVESTIGATION BUREAU
14A AWOLOWO LANE, IKOYI
LAGOS NIGERIA.
Motto: No Body is Above the LAW

In a desperate effort to contain the embarrassment of government
related frauds,the EFCC,in collaboration with the Nigerian,British and
USA government have established a zero tolerance action plan against
these monumental frauds which have deprived thousands of International
beneficiaries a right of claim to their deserved payments.


As you may know, former President Goodluck Jonathan lost the March
28, 2015 presidential elections to President Muhammadu Buhari. Since
the loss of the election to the opposition APC candidate President
Buhari, there has been probable fear everywhere as the outgoing
administration is rightly anticipating that the current administration
of President Buhari might probe all sectors of the economy to expose
monumental frauds including the controversial missing US$20billion
from Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), which the then
Minister of Finance Dr (Mrs.) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Minister of
Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke have been
implicated.The immediate past Minister of Finance, Ngozi
Okonjo-Iweala, illegally approved the transfer of at least N61.4
billion ($300 million and £5.5 million) from funds recovered from late
dictator, Gen Sani Abacha, to the Office of the National Security
Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, few weeks to the 2015 presidential election.

These funds,originally meant for distribution to thousands of
beneficiaries like yourself have been embezzled and diverted by these
fraudulent past government officials and such acts must stop.

Presently, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (E.F.C.C) have
arrested a total of 148 past corrupt government officials in the
ongoing government investigations and a total of $2.44 Billion has
been recovered and held under safe custody by the E.F.C.C for onward
release to rightful beneficiaries like yourself in the United States,
Britain, and Australia as long as such beneficiaries can provide
original copies of their FUNDS REPATRIATION CERTIFICATE.The United
Nation Anti-crime commission and the United States Government have
ordered the money recovered from the Scammers to be shared among
foreign beneficiaries around the globe to reduce poverty.

You have recieved this notification because your email address was
found in one of the Fraudulent government officials file and computer
hard disk in our custody here in Nigeria and with the information
gathered from this Scam artists, we notice that you have been scammed
of so much money and we have decided to compensate you with a little
token to recover the loss of your fund. You are therefore being
compensated with the total sum $2.5 Million Dollars.

We have also arrested all those claiming that they are barristers,
bank officials, or Lottery Agents with fake claims of having authority
to transfer your funds to you or want you to be the next of kin of
such funds so you are strongly advised to STOP dealing with anyone
claiming to have access and ensure you report any present or ongoing
dealing you may have with anyone concerning your funds to us
immediately.

Since your name appeared among the lucky beneficiaries who will
receive a compensation of US$2.5 Million each, we have made
arrangement to register you for Online Banking through our Global
Bank, where you will have full access to your Online Banking Account
Fund, to transfer your fund personally to your Private Bank Account
with no complication of things or questioning as the Account will be
fully registered in your Name.

Feel free to contact the processing agent, Mr Jeffery Hawkins. The online
Banking Processing is made much easier for you to transfer your fund
to your private Bank Account personally, to avoid any delay or
complication of things. With this Online Banking Transfer Processing,
you can only transfer the Maximum Amount of US$500,000.00
daily/instalmentally until the total amount of your
Compensated/deposited fund is transferred and completely paid to you.

You are now required to send :

(1)Full Name..........................
(2)Home Address....................
(3)Mobile Phone Number..............
(4)Sex.............................
(5)Age..........................
(6)Occupation.......................
(7)Company Name................
(8)Business name...............
(9)Id card........................

(10)Provide your Funds Repatriation Certificate

Send the above information for immediate response to our registered
agents contact below:

Name of Agent: Mr Jeffery Hawkins
Email Address:consulatedesk@qq.com

We await your feedback.

FROM MR. IBRAHIM LAMORDE. (CHAIRMAN)
ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRIMES COMMISSION
NIGERIA INVESTIGATION BUREAU
14A AWOLOWO LANE, IKOYI
LAGOS NIGERIA.
Motto: No Body is Above the LAW
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