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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: CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA <kommunikation@ungk.dk>
Reply-To: <centralbkofnigeria1101@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 22:56:53 -0400
Subject: RE: .PAYMENT OF YOUR FUND

 
CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA
14th Floor 51/55 Broad Street,P.M.B 12147Lagos-Nigeria
+2348029794038
 
 
Attn: Beneficiary
 
We apologize to you over the delay to transfer your part payment of inheritance/Compensation fund valued at $5.5M USD into your nominated receiving bank account.
 
Meanwhile the transfer arrangements of yourcompensation/Inheritancefund valued at $5,500,000.00 was perfected after the Minister of Finance presented thenew bank account normalization letter from Minister of Justice. I will immediately forward the telex report of the transfer to you before thefund will reflect on your account immediately without any waste oftime as you will also confirm this in your own account.
 
 
 
However, your compensation payment file withother legal documents backing this fund has been forwarded to theNigeria Ministry Of Finance and the United Nations Affiliate office in Nigeria for the final approval, And we shall proceed with the transfer immediately we hear from you because we were mandated to transfer this fund to you as one of the beneficiary whom the namewas listed in the World Bank foreign debts settlement/compensation payment file.
 
Kindly provide us the following information to enable us proceed with the transfer of the fund to your bank account.
 
Full Name....................
Home Address.................
Age/Occupation..............
Valid Phone number............
Country/State........
Any Of Your Identity Card........
 
We look forward to read from you as soon as possible
 
Please through this email...centralbkofnigeria1101@gmail.com
 
Yours faithfully,
 
Mr. Mohammed Hamed
Deputy Governor And
Director, Telex & Wire Dept
Central Bank of Nigeria
 

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