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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: Chairman Investigation Department (NID) info@lee.org
Reply-To: adamsjoseph90@aol.com
Date: 16 Oct 2018 01:40:20 +0530
Subject: Your Attention is needed

THE PRESIDENCY FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA
SENATE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN CONTRACT PAYMENT
DATE: *******

Your Attention is needed:

I am Bernd Frieze, the Chairman, Senate Committee on Foreign
Payment, in cognizance with the credit cover of

CBN/YOUR BANK, duly adopted by the Senate Committee on Foreign
Payment as requested for a fund movement cover in

your favor. I am compelled to advice you to contact: Dr Adams
Joseph, Chairman Foreign Contract verification &

Transfer Committee (FCVTC) E-mail: (adamsjoseph90@aol.com)
immediately you read this email. In view of several

efforts already made by us to contact you for the following
reasons, My Office desks have just received a sworn

affidavit to re-route your payment into a new bank account as
stated CHASE BANK and the Account #: 760575881.

Please, confirm to our department if you have instructed anyone
to appoint an attorney/agent on your behalf.

Please, confirm if you have authorized us through your agents to
issue cash Draft payment valued US$20M remittance

on your behalf. Also confirm if you have authorized your attorney
to change your name to Loren Robert Davis, and

following particulars stated below:

Account name: LOREN ROBERT DAVIS
Account number: 760575881
Routing number: 123271978
Home address: 201 W OWYHEE AVE APT 1 HOMEDALE ID, 83628
Phone number: 415-873-8674
Bank Name: CHASE BANK
Bank address: 50 2ND ST S NAMPA 83651 BANK
Bank phone number: 208-465-3242

Also re-confirm your information, Your ID, Private Telephone and
Fax number, your e-mail address, Office and home

address, so that we can cross-check it with our file records.

We have decided to contact you because we suspected that somebody
is trying to divert your fund through the sworn

affidavit of means, into a new different bank account. Already,
their associates have requested us to place a cash

call order in their favor on your behalf, but we discovered that
your information was not there. Therefore, you are

hereby advised to contact (Dr Adams Joseph) Foreign Contract
Verification & Transfer Committee on this

(adamsjoseph90@aol.com) regarding the above stated. Please inform
him and acknowledge your acceptance to the above

stated, but if not, please do not hesitate to inform him very
urgently, so that he can stop the diversion of your

fund. For security reasons, please contact him through phone or
e-mail to avoid interception. And here is his

private phone number: +234-

Best regards.

Bernd Frieze
Chairman Investigation Department (NID)


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