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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: "FRANKLIN AMAECHI" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <franklin.amaechi@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:07:57 +0100
Subject: RE: YOUR PAYMENT VIA VISA ATM CARD


>From the desk of Mr. Franklin Amaechi
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 signed an agreement with the International Governing bodies (IMF,UN and EU) to offset/pay out all long over due contract/inheritance payments owned to foreign citizens or have the country Nigeria face a Global Sanction/Ban.

To avert this sanction/ban, Dr.Goodluck Jonathan and his cabinet has approved a total sum of $28million for partial/part-payment to beneficiaries whose claim of contract/inheritance debts are satisfied authentic.

The presidency has constituted an auditory committee to audit and reconcile all foreign debts owned by the previous government of Nigeria. A standard auditing has been conducted nationwide in all banks and other financial firms here in Nigeria to ascertain all genuine and authenticated beneficiaries whose payments has been held back by the past government.

The presidency has instructed that this $28M,has to be disbursed accordingly to ensure that each and every short-listed beneficiary receive a part payment of $850,000.00 for this quarter of the year.

This letter is to officially inform you that a "VISA ATM CARD Number 4083052100220044" has been accredited and processed in your favor. Your Personal Identification Number (PIN) is 9086.The VISA Card Value is 850,000.00(Eight Hundred $ Fifty Thousand Us Dollars Only),which must be delivered to your nominated address for onward withdrawal of your part payment of $850,000.00.

Meanwhile, during the processement of this VISA ATM CARD, we received an application from one “MR CERSTIN WENGER SHENOUDA” who claimed that he is your business associate here in Nigeria. The said application from MR CERSTIN WENGER SHENOUDA reads that you are dead, and a documentation instructions was left for him to receive his payment when ever Nigeria government intends to pay his inheritance claim.

With reference to his application, 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 bank to bank transfer of this payment ,which
stated as follows:

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

With the application filed by CERSTIN WENGER SHENOUDA, detailing that you are dead, we need to confirm and ascertain the reality of this application, thus we decided to write this letter. Therefore we are expecting to receive a reply email today proving that you are alive. To avoid any complications you are also expected to reply with the following data:

(1)Full names:

(2)Address:

(3)Country:

(4)Nationality:

(5)Phone #:

(6) Sex/Occupation:

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 in his application is true and correct, we will proceed to ship the payment ATM CARD to him for withdrawals.

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

Note,this Government has warned all short-isted beneficiaries to stop any sort of communications with any office of person(s) as hoodlums from this country has engaged themselves in sending out all sorts of fraudulents emails."BE CAREFUL".

Best Regards.
Mr. Franklin Amaechi
Federal Ministry Finance(FMF)







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