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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: "YORK-WAI" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <bc19bc57366@jqmail.jp>
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 13:43:06 +0100
Subject: VERIFICATION

>From the desk of Rev.Pastor Franklin Bello
Federal Ministry Of Finance
5th Floor, Annex 3,New Federal Secretariat Complex,
Shehu Shagari Way, Central Area
Abuja-Nigeria.

Dear Beneficiary,

This is to bring to your notice that the New President of Federal Republic of Nigeria, ”Dr. Goodluck Jonathan ,has constituted a 10 man investigations and foreign Debts reconciliation and payment committee, to investigate all the banks here in Nigeria ,who has trapped and held beneficiaries contract/inheritance claims without transferring their
payments.

However, the New President has vowed that his government has set to eradicate corruption and fraudulent practices here in Nigeria to zero level, that which portrait ugly reputations of this country’s image in the international communities.


As mandated by the Federal Government of Nigeria who had recently come in conclusion in an alliance meeting to approved part payments of US$5,200,000.00 (Five MILLION,TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND US DOLLARS ONLY) to all verified and short-listed beneficiaries for their contract/inheritance claims.

I am directed to contact you by the Federal Ministry of Finance, to urgently confirm from you if actually you know one “MR CERSTIN WENGER SHENOUDA” from Germany, who claimed to be your business associate/partner here in Nigeria.

The said MR CERSTIN WENGER SHENOUDA is claiming to this office that you are dead and that you left a documented instructs him to receive the fund/payment which the federal Government of Nigeria is owning him.

In accordance to his claim, MR CERSTIN WENGER SHENOUDA instructed that all relevant documents/information regarding this claim should be changed in favor of him as the beneficiary, who is among the short-listed. He equally presented an account for the transfer of this payment ,which stated as follows:

Bank: FRANKFURTER BANK
A/C No: 367840545
Code: 50050201
Beneficiary: CERSTIN WENGER SHENOUDA

With application filed by CERSTIN WENGER SHENOUDA, detailing that you are dead, we need to confirm the reality of the application thus we decided to write this letter.

Note, if we did not receive any response from you within the next 24 hours, we will believe that what MR CERSTIN WENGER SHENOUDA told us is true and correct, and we will proceed to transfer the above stated amount to his nominated bank account.

You are hereby requested to respond to this email immediately for confirmation with the following data

- Beneficiary’s full name:
- Beneficiary’s current Address:
- Direct contact telephone no:
- Any form of identification:
- Present occupation/sex:


Your quick response and The above informations will help this ministry to tackle this problems of double claims.

Best Regards.
Rev.Pastor Franklin Bello
Minister of Finance(FMF)

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