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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: "Mr.Ibrahim Mustafa Magu" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <efccfraudalertdept@qq.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 02:32:43 -0300
Subject: EFCC (EAGLE)

FROM OFFICE OF THE CHAIRMAN,
ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRIMES COMMISSION.
CHIEF DR. IBRAHIM MUSTAFA MAGU(CHAIRMAN)
NIGERIA INVESTIGATION BUREAU
14A AWOLOWO LANE, IKOYI
LAGOS NIGERIA.
WEBSITE: www.efcc.com
Motto: No Body is Above the LAW (THE EAGLE)
(BE CAREFUL OF THE HOODLUMS / SCAMMERS)



I am Mr. Ibrahim Mustafa Magu the chairman of ECONOMIC & FINANCIAL CRIME COMMISSION (EFCC), EFCC in alliance with economic community of West African states (ECOWAS) with head Office here in Nigeria, We have been working towards the eradication of fraudsters and scam Artists in Western part of Africa With the help of United States Government and the United Nations.

We have been able to track down so many of this scam in various parts of the West Africa countries which includes ( REPUBLIC OF BENIN, TOGO, GHANA, CAMEROUN, NIGERIA , MALI AND SENEGAL, ) and they are all in our custody here in Lagos Nigeria.

The Anti-corruption war is taken a turn as the past chairman of the commission's Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde a police officer, was removed as EFCC chairman on November 9, 2015 four years after he took over as head of the anti-graft agency and is under investigation for alleged diversion of N1 trillion and charge to court on the 17th November 2015 in a supreme court in Abuja, you can also follow the link for more informations.

http://www.blueprint.ng/2015/11/10/sacked-lamorde-faces-arrest/

The EFCC as an agency that is founded on transparency is not afraid of any “probe” or request for information regarding its activities by individuals, groups or organs of government; so far as such requests followed due process of law. The EFCC under Lamorde did not need the prompting of anyone, when it commissioned a reputable international audit firm, KPMG to carry out comprehensive audit of exhibits and forfeited assets of the Commission from 2003 to date.

We have also arrested all those who claim that they are barristers, bank officials, government officials, Lottery Agents who with-held your funds, has money for transfer or want you to be the next of kin of such funds which does not exist.

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/198289-lawyers-acting-technical-advisers-criminals-efccs-magu.html

We have been able to recover so much money from this hoodlums, corrupt government officials and these scam artists, the New minister of Finance Federal Republic of Nigeria Mrs. Kemi Adeosun under president Muhammadu Buhari, and the CBN issued a statement on Feburary 20th 2016 to the effect that the CBN is against the fleecing of customers under any guise and with the mandate of the Apex Bank, issued a deposit refund of N6.2 Billion excess charges on cost of transaction for 2015 alone. This refund, the CBN said arose from more 6,000 complaints of unauthorised bank charges brought to its notice. So the United Nation Anti-crime commission, the United State Government and the CBN have ordered the money recovered from the Scammers/government official to be shared among 100 Lucky people around the globe.

This email is being directed to you because your email address was found in our past Chairman computer Mr. Ibrahim Larmode hard disk during our investigation in our office here in Nigeria and with the information gathered, we notice that you have been scammed of so much money and no compensation has been given to you, so we decided to compensate you with a little token to recover the lost of your fund you are therefore being compensated with the total sum $2.5 Million Dollars.

Since your name appeared among the lucky beneficiaries who will receive a compensation of US$2.5 Million, we have made arrangement to register an Online Banking through our Global Bank, (Standard Chartered 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.

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.

So you are advice to contact the processing officer Anti-Crime Foreign Operation Department of the (EFCC) Mr. James Green who is in charge of your funds with your provided information required for verification below.

CONTACT PERSON: MR JAMES GREEN
CONTACT EMAIL ADDRESS: efccfraudalertdept@qq.com
CONTACT TELEPHONE: +234-8091878719
Provide the information below to enable the processing of your Online Banking Account for deposition of your total compensated fund.


Provide the information bellow to enable the processing of your Online Banking Account for deposition of your total compensated fund.

1) YOUR FULL NAME.
2) YOUR ADDRESS.
3) YOUR TELEPHONE NUMBER.
4) YOUR OCCUPATION
5) YOUR IDENTITY/INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT
6) COUNTRY.


Contact Mr. James Green with the information required for verification to enable him start the processing of your Online Banking Account Registration, we GUARANTEE you your safety and wish you the best of luck.

We must all act as AGENT of stamping out corruption, THE EAGLE will get you.

Best Regard,

Mr.Ibrahim Mustafa Magu
CHAIRMAN ECONOMIC & FINANCIAL CRIME COMMISSION
(EFCC) FOREIGN OPERATIONS DEPT,
LAGOS-NIGERIA.

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