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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: "Dr. Yusuf Ubanwa" <ministry.o84@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: "Dr. Yusuf Ubanwa" <fileoffice997@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 17:51:14 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: For Your Kind Attention

For Your Kind Attention:

I am Dr. Yusuf Ubanwa, the Chairman in charge of Treasury Department, International wire transfers of Nigeria Federal

Ministry of Finance. This is to inform you that your payment file was brought to my desk because the directors & management

of the WESTERN UNION & MONEYGRAM transfer have declared to divert your fund to the government treasury account just because

you could not be able to pay for the required wire transfer fee. In reasoning wisely to this complaint I told them to wait

until I hear from you so that I will know the reason why you decided to reject such amount of $1.5 Million USD which is your

rightful & legal overdue inheritance payment just because of transfer fee.

The reason why I sent this email to you is because it’s your sweat and for this reason you still have this last chance to

claim your fund if you can pay for the renewing fee which is the only small sum of amount that you will required to pay for

immediate renewing your payment file with this office and proceed on your transaction, because I have already arranged your

wires ready for its daily wires to you but failing to do this, I will allow them to have power over your fund and am very

sorry if you failed as this is the last chance for you to receive your $1.5Million USD through this office.

Therefore, this is the needed information we needed from you for the conclusion of this transition to you.

Your Full Name:.........................
Current Home Address:...................
Country:................................
Occupation:.............................
Telephone Number:.......................
Age:....................................
Gender:.................................
Attach Copy Of Your Id:.................

Kindly update us with this needed information for the transferring of your $1.5Million to you, now how do you wish to receive

your fund? By Western Union or Money Gram transfer but the maximum amount officially allow for it per day wire to you is

$5,000.00 per day until you receive your complete $1.5 Million from here. The second option is bank to bank wire transfer

direct to your account if you want your fund to be fully transfer to your direct receiving bank account at once or to

converting your fund into an ATM Master Card and dispatch it to you through fast express courier service. All this should be

after your payment file with this office is renewed.

You are to indicate your wish on how to receive your funds as I have stated above and the funds will be released to you

without any hitch.

You can as well call or text on this stated below phone number +234-8038577254.

Thanks.

Dr. Yusuf Ubanwa
Treasury Department,
International Wire Transfers
Federal Ministry of Finance Lagos Nigeria
Telephone: +234-8038577254

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