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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: "OFFICE OF THE SENATE PRESIDENT" <offsenpresident1@msn.com>
Reply-To: offsenpresident@walla.com
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 09:07:19 +0000
Subject: Foreign Contract Verification & Transfer Committee

FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA
Foreign Contract Verification & Transfer Committee
Office of the Senate President, (Garki-Abuja)
(Senator Ken Nnamani)

Re f: FGN/SEN/VOL 724- X1/05
Cablegram: NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

DATE: 4th Jan 2006

ATTN: BENEFICIARY

RE: CREDIT BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF NIGERIA UNDER THE SECOND QUARTER OF
2005 PAYMENT IN COLLABORATION WITH SIX (6) SENATE MEMBER COMMITTEE ON
FOREIGN DEBT.

Following the Federal Government Mandate of 2005 over Foreign Payment and
Debt, our office has finally granted a final approval over your company’s
payment. We have also attached this along to the PRESIDENT OLUSEGUN OBASANJO
with a payment approval notice RE-22XXY36.

Meanwhile, your Local Representatives here in Nigeria have submitted your
bank details to us where this fund is to be transferred. As a matter of
urgency and appropriateness, do crosscheck this submitted bank details of
yours as forwarded by your Local Representative to ensure accuracy. The
account is hereby stated below.

CITIBANK N.A NEW YORK 1005,
ABA #: 04121855677
SWIFT CODE: CTTIUS33
ACCOUNT #: 03-11153-1

To this effect, you are therefore mandated to contact REV PAUL SULE DIRECTOR
FOREIGN PAYMENT UNIT CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA for the immediate release of
your payment on this security Tel: 234-1-477O186 revpaulng@myway.com During
the event of your contact to him, we also advised that you should refer him
to the below release numbers.

RELEASE CODE: = CBN/CBN/XXCY/WK3/008/05
SEQUENCE NUMBER = NNCB/B12/0XX/05
REFERENCE = CBN/0080/02/05
TRANSACTION NUMBER = CBN/R0/00XX/05
SWIFT NUMBER = CBN/FGN/NXXWFT/3256
FOREX ALLOCATION NO: = FGN/CBN/360XYX/2005/XXZ

Once more expedite action towards this contact; we have handed over
everything about the release of your payment to REV PAUL SULE TELE: 234-1-
477O186 for prompt release. We at the same time apologize for the
continuous delay over the final approval of this payment. This was as a
result of irregularities and gross mis-crediting funds in the past by
Government Agents. Moreover, we thank you very much for your kind endurance
so far.

Please you are advised to fax the first and second pages of your
International Passport. You should desist from any office of any kind or
person(s).

Thanks for working with Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Expecting your prompt response.


Yours faithfully,





SENETOR KEN NNAMANI
Senate President, Federal Republic of Nigeria



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