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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: mrs chichi agu <mrschichi53@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <mrs_chichi200@myway.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 13:14:20 +0100
Subject: YOUR OVERDUE INHERITANCE CONTRACT PAYMENT




From: Federal Ministry of Finance Attention .Beneficiary Re: Your contract payment with the Federal Republic of Nigeria ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: Federal Ministry of Finance and Economic Development approval on Form A 25th March 2004, by order of Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) have given an instruction for your contract payment to be effected into your nominated bank account and we need an urgent respond from you before given any order to the bank to release your contract fund. After the visit of Queen Elizabeth of England in Nigeria concerningCOMMON WEALTH ORGANIZATION, Nigeria registered as a member and to avoid betraying the Human Right Law, government decided to pay off all foreigners overdue contract payment owned by Nigeria government for pass years. We are sorry for any inconvenience and delay.Please bear with us. Now the Approval have given to remit your payment and our Ministry promise you that your overdue contract payment must credit into your nominate bank account. Be advice that without the Federal ministry of Finance given an approval to the bank, your fund can't be transferred. We will tell you which bank to contact due to the fraudulent activities going on in banks now. Try your possible best to get in contact with us as soon as you receive this mail, and if you have misplace any information concerning this, inform this office to enable us know what to do about it so that you will receive your overdue contract payment which have beenapproved to pay you. Below is your contract informations that you will use to contact the Appex bank that will pay you your contract fund. a.CONTRACT NO: NNPC/PED/876CX - WR/KAD/94 b. CONTRACT SITE:KADUNA/PORT-HARCOURT REFINERIES c. PURPOSE OF PAYMENT: CONTRACT EXECUTED WITH THE NIGERIAN NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION (NNPC) FOR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF NIGERIA. d. NATURE OF CONTRACT: 480,000 MONAXAXIAL AND ERECTION OF SYSTEM OPTIMIZATION SUPER POLYORE 240,000 BPSD FOR PLANT "A" TO "C" AND COMPUTERIZATION AND REFINERY CRUDE OIL LAYING PIPELINES PROJECT. You can call me now on +234-803-251-0657Thanks Mrs. Chichi Agu Director in Charge Federal Ministry of finance Foreign Debt reconciliation department Phone : +234-803-251-0657
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