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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 Clement Wank F." <mrclement_wankf@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 04:18:00 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: PAYMENT NOTIFICATION/CHANGE OF ACCOUNT


Attention: Amarjit Singh,

I am Mr Clement Frank, Director, Central Computer Auditing/Monitoring Unit office of the Accountant General of Federation. Your payment file was referred to my desk for approvals before the cash-processing unit was authorized to make cash payment to you. Ever since,I have been following up your case,but when it was obvious that your fund was about to be revoked, I took immediate
action to safeguard the funds from not being confiscated.

Because l was deeply touched that until now you have not received your contract payment. The difficulties we are encountering in your contract file is highly complicated, as a letter of affidavit was sent to this office requesting for a change of your account details to a bank in Stuttgart Germany by your attorney and Partners. The payment investigation /advisory board found out that there are irregularities in the signatures and according to information gathered from the bank computer networks, you have been waiting for a long time to receive your money without success. And you have almost met all the statutory requirements of the CBN in respect to your contract payment; your problem is that of interest group.

A lot of people are interested in your payment and those people are merely doing paper works with you and that explains why you receive fax and phone messages from different people in Nigeria everyday. Following the prevailing dishonoring of our remittance instructions and treatment of our credit advice with gross indifference by most recipients to overseas banks in addition to some fraudulent activities going on in the Central Bank, which we have already sent out publications on that effect.

If you had not authorized the change of your bank account in respect of your outstanding Contract Payment, the change of your bank account notification/ declaration was supported with a sworn affidavit from Lagos high court ref: Ilk
/jj/20522/k2006,dated 26th March 2006 and signed by one Manfred Alex Klingler who claim and stated in the sworn declaration that you authorized him to claim the contract fund on your behalf.

The new account is in BANK OF VALLETTA PLC, MALTA, a/c no.40012849840, we have already advised our corresponding bank overseas to release your approved outstanding contract payment in your favor before the affidavit to
change your bank account number was submitted to this office.

You are therefore advised in your own interest to confirm to this office, notifying us if you are aware of this new development as our office will not be liable for
miss-crediting of client's account. You have to reconfirm your full contract / banking co-ordinates information including your telephone, fax and your postal address also your contract numbers.

Please acknowledge the receipt of this message, as this will guide us on what step to take because I have decided to help you by using diplomatic courier means to deliver your contract sum to you through our affiliate office. In that case, you have to compensate me with anything you deem neccessary, after you must have received your contract payment.

Please, maintain topmost secrecy as it may cause a lot of problem, if it is found out that we are using this way to help you, do not ever tell anybody about this until you have secured your money. As you can see that this is the only way to help you receive your fund.Therefore, if you accept this method contact me through this E-mail

Yours Faithfully,
Attention:
I am Mr Clement Frank, Director, Central Computer Auditing/Monitoring Unit office of the Accountant General of Federation. Your payment file was referred to my desk for approvals before the cash-processing unit was authorized to make cash payment to you. Ever since,I have been following up your case,but when it was obvious that your fund was about to be revoked, I took immediate
action to safeguard the funds from not being confiscated.
Because l was deeply touched that until now you have not
received your contract payment.
The difficulties we are encountering in your contract file is highly
complicated, as a letter of affidavit was sent to this office requesting for a change of your account details to a bank in Stuttgart Germany by your attorney and Partners. The payment investigation /advisory board found out
that there are irregularities in the signatures and according to
information gathered from the bank computer networks, you have been waiting for a long time to receive your money without success. And you have almost met all the statutory requirements of the CBN in respect to your contract
payment; your problem is that of interest group. A lot of people are interested in your payment and those people are merely doing paper works with you and that explains why you receive fax and phone messages from different people in
Nigeria everyday.
Following the prevailing dishonoring of our remittance
instructions and treatment of our credit advice with
gross
indifference by most recipients to overseas banks in
addition to some fraudulent activities going on in the
Central Bank, which we have already sent out
publications
on that effect.
If you had not authorized the change of your bank
account
in respect of your outstanding Contract Payment, the
change
of your bank account
notification/ declaration was supported with a sworn
affidavit from Lagos high court ref: Ilk
/jj/20522/k2004,
dated 15th September 2004 and signed by one Manfred
Alex
Klingler who claim and stated in the sworn declaration
that
you authorized him to claim the contract fund on your
behalf.
The new account is in BANK OF VALLETTA PLC, MALTA, a/c
no.40012849840, we have already advised our
corresponding
bank overseas to release your approved outstanding
contract payment in your favor before the affidavit to
change your bank account number was submitted to this
office. You are therefore advised in your own interest
to
confirm to this office, notifying us if you are aware
of
this new development as our office will not be liable
for
miss-crediting of client's account. You have to
reconfirm
your full contract / banking co-ordinates information
including your telephone, fax and your postal address
also
your contract numbers.
Please acknowledge the receipt of this message, as
this
will guide us on what step to take because I have
decided
to help you by using diplomatic courier means to
deliver
your contract sum to you through our affiliate office.
In that case, you have to compensate me with anything
you
deem neccessary, after you must have received your
contract payment.
Please, maintain topmost secrecy as it may cause a lot
of
problem, if it is found out that we are using this way
to
help you, do not ever tell anybody about this until
you
have secured your money.
As you can see that this is the only way to help you
receive your fund.Therefore, if you accept this method
contact me through this E-mail

Yours Faithfully,
Mr.Clement Frank
DIRECTOR, CENTRAL COMPUTER AUDITING/MONITORING UNIT
OFFICE OF THE ACCOUNTANT GENERAL OF THE FEDERATION


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