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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: Debts Payment Office <debtspayment010@gmail.com>
Reply-To: debtspayment01@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 21:16:45 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: RE: Your Payment Notification


OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENCY
SENATE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN PAYMENT
GARKI - ABUJA NIGERIA
 
>From the Desk of:                                                                                         
Senator Ehigie Edobor Uzamere
Senate Chairman on Local and Foreign Debts
Garki, Abuja – Nigeria
Phone: +234-806-2335499
 
 
Attn: Beneficiary
                                           RE: Your Payment Notification
 
This is to notify you of your Immediate Contract/Inheritance Payment Number: AV/FGN/MIN/0010. On behalf of the entire staff of Central Bank of Nigeria, and the Federal Government of Nigeria in collaborated with the Authorities, who are in charge of foreign and local payments. We Apologies for the delay of your payment, the Inconveniences and Inflict that we might have indulge you through.
 
Please as a matter of urgency you are required to verify the following information and get back to me if you are aware or know anything about this as we are having some serious problems with your payment which have demoralized us. In respect to this one Mr. John Tsai submitted an application that you authorized your funds to be paid to him on your behalf with a report that you are paralyzed as a result of the ghastly motor accident you had some months back and we would like to confirm the below.
 
1. Did you instruct one Mr. John Tsai or anyone from your family, or relation to claim and receive the payment on your behalf?
 
(2) Were you involved in a motor accident?
 
(3) Did you sign any "Deed of Assignment" in his favor thereby making him the current beneficiary of your payment with the following account details stated above? Or did you user him any “Power of Attorney” to claim the funds?
 
Also the delay in transferring the funds is due to the request for a power of attorney authorizing him to pursue this payment on your behalf. He asked for a week so as to submit the document, but up till now we have not received any of the documents from him which raised my contact to you to find out. Kindly confirm to me if you truly authorized this act or not as I sense that your funds are been diverted which is in total of $10,530,000.00usd. You are highly required to get back to me a.s.a.p to this email debtspayment01@gmail.com or you can call me on my direct number above.
 
Anticipating your prompt response.
 
Senator Ehigie Edobor Uzamere



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