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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: "Bank Cbn" <centralbanknigeria002@msn.com>
Reply-To: centrralbbanknigeria@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 09:33:41 +0000
Subject: REPLY WITH BOX ONLY URGENT REPLY NEEDED.


CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA

INTERNATIONAL REMITTANCE DEPARTMENT

CORPORATE HEAD QUARTERS TINUBU SQUARE,
MARINA LAGOS NIGERIA.
TEL: 234-80 24 28 65 19

Our Ref : CBN/IRD/CBX/021/06
From the Desk Of:
Prof Charles Soludo
Executive Governor (CBN)
                                     EMAIL:centralbanknigeria002@msn.com
 
 

Dear Justin Thyme,

 

This is to confirm the receipt of your mail to me, As I have promise that immediately you send the money you will not pay any other money until you confirm your fund in your account.

 

I want you to be replying mails to you with this email address for security reasons since I don’t want to make any mistake at this final stage of the transaction. The Address is centralbanknigeria002@msn.com

 

I am here to protect you and make sure that you receive your fund without any problem and I will want you to follow my instruction so that everything will work well to you.

 

Immediately you reconfirm your reply to this my new email address I will forward the account information to you so that you send the money with the account information.

 

I will call immediately I receive your reply to my new box.

 

Please don’t use this Email Address again charles_soludo@speedymail.org.

 

Thanks for your cooperation,

 

Yours Faithfully,

Professor Charles Soludo.

 

 

 

De: justinthym@googlemail.com

Para:
Copia:
Fecha: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 07:19:38 +0100
Asunto: Re: Raise the funds and get back to me

Dear Professor Soludo,

I have now secured the required fees of $50,000 please advise secure bank account details so I can
transfer the funds to you as quickly as possible.

Once that is done can you confirm this will be the final payment I need to make to secure the transfer of
the $25Million into my trust,

If necessary you can call me on my work number - +1 (425)906-3449 - and be patient, if I am on the
phone it will let me know there is a call waiting and put you on hold, I will try and get off the phone as
soon as I can.

yours
Justin Thyme

>
> On 08/12/06, Professor Charles Soludo <charles_soludo@speedymail.org> wrote:
>
>
>Dear Justin,
>
>Once you have raised the necessary funds to finalise the transfer please get back to me   
>and I will give you the bank account details to transfer the money into.
>
>yours
>
>Professor Charles Soludo


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