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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: TUNDE LEMO <tunde_lemo1967@yahoo.es>
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 17:09:11 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: RESOLUTION PANEL ON CONTRACT PAYMENT)




OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY GOVERNOR
OF CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA
(RESOLUTION PANEL ON CONTRACT PAYMENT)
IKOYI-LAGOS NIGERIA
Our Ref: FGN /SNT/STB Your Ref……………
Attn:Fund Beneficiary,

This is to notify the numerous foreign contractors/Inheritance Benficiaries owed by the Federal Government of Nigeria from various parastatals that going by the Geneva Pact signed by the government of Nigeria, and the World Bank as it relates to long overdue payment of foreign contractors/Inheritance on behalf of the Federal Government of Nigeria.

Apparently, investigations carried out by the World Bank Auditors has confirmed that most beneficiaries are being asked to pay certain irrelevant charges by the Apex Bank (Central Bank of Nigeria) and other government financial institutions, therefore making it very difficult for contractor/Beneficiary to meet such obligations which is contrary to Section “37” Subsection “C” of the Article XII of Banks and other financial decree of 1995 as amended in 1998.


In view of this, the Governing Board of the World Bank has directed the World Bank Auditors to shift base to Nigeria to scrutinize and oversee an immediate release of such payments that has met the requirements for effectiveness without any further delay. Any beneficiary certified “OK” will receive his / her fund within five (5) working days from the date of the final authentication of his / her contractual date.


You are required to provide us with a Seal Of Transfer Certificate,so that we can start to process your Payment here in the Central Bank Of Nigeria,for final crediting of fund into your account,but meanwhile we will call your bank to confirm the fund as soon as the transfer is completed,and also we will be sending you the TELEX CONFIRMATION SLIP together with your PAYMENT SLIP for proper confirmation of fund.




We, the entire members of the Board Of Directors, on behalf of the Federal Republic of Nigerian Government, Under the auspices of the civilian Head of State, President Olusegun Obasanjo and the Governor of Central Bank Of Nigeria , Prof Charles Soludo held a meeting yesterday evening concerning payments , both foreign and local contractors and some inheritance funds.



On going through files today, we discovered that your file was dumped untreated , so at this juncture, we apologize for the delay of your payment and please stop communicating with any office now and wish to inform you that your fund has been transferred to FOREIGN CREDIT COMMITEE,USA.

You are requested to reconfirm your contract and banking information to enable FOREIGN CREDIT COMMITEE update your file and instruct your bank to effect your payment.


NOTE : We have mounted our security network to monitor every in-coming call , if we still find out that you are still dealing with all those fraudsters that have been frustrating , I shall stop and cancel your payment immediately .

Best Regards



MR,TUNDE LEMO Dr Uffort Ekaette
DEPUTY GOVERNOR CBN Secretary of the federation
(Federal Republic of Nigeria)




















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