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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: "FirstBankFirstBank" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <firstfbplc@fastwebmail.it>
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 04:17:35 +1100
Subject: Director International Remittance

FIRST BANK OF NIGERIA PLC
HEAD OFFICE SAMUEL ASABIA HOUSE
35 MARINA LAGOS NIGERIA
 
Attn:
NOTIFICATION FOR RELEASE OF $9.5M
 
This letter is written to you in order to change your life from today.
I am Rev. John Aboh the new director, international remittance
department of this bank ,my boss Mr Jacob M Ajekigbe, the MD/ CEO of
this bank is now on compulsory leave and all power has been vested on
me to make all international payment....Furthermore due to allegations
of corrupt practice against other Nigeria Banks, the Federal
Government of Nigeria has appointed this bank to effect all foreign
overdue payment.
 
Be informed that the Federal Government have Approved the release of
$9.5M which have been in this bank for many years UNCLAIMED. Our Boss
in collaboration with the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria have
refuse to tell you the truth on how to claim your fund, this is
because they has been using the interest accumulated from your fund
every year to enrich themselves without your knowledge. I want to help
you PULL OUT this fund to your Bank account today using the easiest
and quickest method which have not been known to you before.
 
By this method a Domiciliary Account will be opened for you. A
domiciliary account is a secure account which we will open for you in
our Bank and Credit your payment of $9.5M for further credit into your
account, the essence of this Domiciliary account is to secure and
protect your payment from being diverted by fraudulent people or
making payment to a foreign account which do not belong to you, the
greatest advantage is that you can instruct us to credit your
nominated account bit by bit with small amount thereby saving yourself
from the embarrassments of Financial Authority in your country who
monitor large transfer due to current trend of terrorist. Another
beauty of the domiciliary account is that you can retain the balance
left in your account in our Bank and can also instruct us to pay out
money to any bank of your choice in the world, or issue you an ATM
Card which you can use in any part of the world when in a business
trip.
 
I hope you now understand the advantages of a Domiciliary account and
why you need this account to receive your payment of $9..5M now in our
Bank. You are advice to forward as a matter of urgent your direct
telephone and Fax number and your contact address as we have started
the process of opening the account for you.
 
 
All that is require of you is to Activate the newly opened Domiciliary
Account with a minimum of $200 USD in line with Provisions of Section
2 Sub Section (iia) of Banks and Financial Act of 2001 which state
that all Non Resident Account otherwise known as Domiciliary must be
activated to make the account operational, while Sub Section (iib) do
NOT permit any Bank official from making deduction from the payment to
be deposited in the domiciliary account, which is $9.5M in your own
case.
 
Call me on +234 80-888-5306 that I will issue you payment release
code which must be given to you personally on telephone strictly for
security reason. This code is very important and is what you will use
to confirm your payment.
 
Yours faithfully
Rev. John Aboh
Director International Remittance

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