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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. GEOFFREY ONYEAMA X" <test@test.com>
Reply-To: minister.geoffreyo12@yandex.com
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2017 15:23:17 -0500
Subject: MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIR (INHERITANCE COMPENSATION APPROVED)

15A Awolowo Rd, Ikoyi, Lagos
Ministry Of Foreign Affairs, Address


From Foreign Affair Office to Foreign Beneficiary,

It's the notification to you that upon all scam experience you have engage yourself into a new method to claim your outstanding funds you have been seeking for since the past years have been approved to the SKYE BANK PLC by the Federal Government of Nigeria, i understand to my notice the SKYE BANK PLC are in contact to you but you never mind to give attention to the Central Bank email receipt, if you have contacted them back you must be aware that your funds arrangement is very strong now on you confirming your payment from SKYE BANK PLC, I as the person heading the foreign Affair office in Nigeria i have live in American and UK, and other countries in Europe, i truly want you to understand that we have strong arrangement for you to claim funds, what you must have experience as scam is been corrected by the Federal Government to ensure your secure the funds from the Central Bank as our foreign beneficiary for our great country to be remove out scam heading country by the World Government bodies who insist on all foreign funds should be release which is release now.

Foreign beneficiary is to put on your knowledge that the funds with the SKYE BANK is very legitimate for you to secure and be free from scammed and thief, Beneficiary i noted that because of your ridiculous experience you felt every email coming from Nigeria is scam, listen you gave your trust to fraudster now this is the truly Nigeria Office which we can assure you on that, you are receiving this email now from the FOREIGN AFFAIR OFFICE in LAGOS and i want to make you to understand that we Nigeria Government are not never in support of scam, because we have travel to other countries and we understood how other Government take ridiculous acts on dishonest citizen who turnglass the country image. I will advice you to give attention to this funds in the SKYE BANK PLC now and claim the funds with the new method plan to see you claim the funds free from fraud.

Funds will be claim from the SKYE BANK PLC which have the approval of the Federal Government to transfer funds to foreign countries from the Government Account, and you are hereby to re confirm your full data back to be sure we are contacting the said beneficiary who own the funds deposited in the CBN.

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Minister of Foreign Affair
(ABUJA NIGERIA)
MR GEOFFREY ONYEAMA

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