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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: Ahmed Usman <ushmed3@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 12:43:07 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: contact any of the departments


Central Bank of Nigeria
Garki Abuja-Nigeria
Website:cenbank.org

Emails: info@cenbankgov-ng.org Info.Dept phone Ext:2
legaldeptcbn@cenbankgov-ng.org Legal phone Ext:10
telexdeptcbn@cenbankgov-ng.org Telex phone Ext:15
officeofthegovernor@cenbankgov-ng.org Governor phone
Ext:1
Foreignpaymentdeptcbn@cenbankgov-ng.org==Foreign payment department phone Ext:16
Tel:234-1-7763652 Ext.16
Attn:Beneficary
It might interest you to note that your payment has
been approved by the Federal Government of Nigeria as
part of the present government effort to pay all
over-due beneficiaries whom there funds has been
over-due,authority has been withdrawn from our local
bank which inlude:First bank plc,Union Bank Plc,Afrik
Bank Plc etc.Under this condition you are made to know
that the local
banks in Nigeria has no authority to pay/transfer any
amount above $1million dollars out of Nigeria, this
authority can only be handled by the Central Bank of
Nigeria.
Reason for the withdrawal of authority is that instead
of our local bank paying the beneficiaries they turn
into charging unofficial fees. In your case we have
received today another set of bank account ,an also an
affidavit confirming that you have authorize the money
to be transferred into the account below:

Please confirm the account you have authorize
your payment.
WITHDRWAL DOCUMENTS
In respect of the new World financial laws, you will be
required to receive the original documents of the
withdrawal documents(16page), which will back you up
over the fund to avoid any questioning from your
government regarding the source of the fund.

You will receive all the original documents through the
Central Bank of Nigeria official courier service(FedEx
courier service) you will have to go to your bank with
the 10 page original documents from the Presidency,
Federal Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank of
Nigeria, it is the documents that will cover the fund
from being tagged as money laundering, Terrorist
Support Fund or Drug money, this is in line with the
World bank/International Monetary fund laws Concerning
international money transfer since the 21 September
2001 Terrorist Attack in United States. And it is the
responsibility of the beneficiaries to take care of the
Procurement, dispatch and Insurance coverage fee of the
10 page documents. As soon as we receive your
confirmation of the account and your readiness to take
of the 10-page document the CBN will
grantee your payment with 7 days.
Sign:
Central Bank of Nigeria
Dr Ahmed Usman
Foreign Payment Dept.



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