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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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Fraud email example:

From: ELU OHAFIA <dr.joy59@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: ELU OHAFIA <elu1ohafia@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 01:49:05 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Respond most urgently.



 Office of the Secretary,
National Assembly Committee on
Foreign Debt Reconciliation and Payment (NACFDRP),
The National Assembly,
Federal Republic of Nigeria.


Dear Monique Reyniers,


Following the Federal government of Nigeria’s resolution to reduce its external
foreign debt to forty percent (40%) before the end of the first quarter of 2011
and assumption of offices by the would-be elected office holders, the National
assembly have constituted a foreign debt reconciliation and payment committee
(NACFDRP), comprising of selected members from the two arms of the national
assembly, the Senate and the house of Representative respectively.


The committee has been mandated (i) To verify all Nigerian’s external foreign
debts owed to foreign contractors and other fund beneficiaries, (ii) To identify
causes of delays in the payment, and (iii) recommend the best and quickest means
of payment to all verified and legitimate claims. (iv) To ensure an immediate
and hitch free payment of all verified outstanding payments.


While reviewing the Debtors files presented to us by the Ministry of Finance and
the Ministry of external affairs, we discover an over invoiced contract figure
amounting to Forty Five Million United States Dollars (US$45,000,000.00) which
was deliberately inflated by the officials who awarded the contracts for their
own selfish gain. We also discovered that you have been making attempt to no
avail to receive part of this money as a contract payment purportedly to have
been executed by you, which the reason of this delay is because of the people
you have been dealing with not having told you the whole truth about the
transaction and or telling you half truth about it. But having gone through your
profile, we (the committee members) and knowing that you might have spent so
much money in trying to actualize this, we have decided to still include your
name as one of the beneficiaries that will be given clean bill to receive their
money so that this time the total over invoiced amount of Forty Five Million
United States dollars will be approved and paid to you to be shared between us
and you. Under this new arrangement, you will be dealing directly with us.
Myself and some of the other committee members who are involved in this have
agreed on this arrangement in other to use the proceed of this transaction to
finance our re-election campaign hence my contacting with you having gone
through your profile as earlier stated and believing that you will not let us
down or betray the enormous trust we are going to bestow in you.


At the successful completion of the payment to you, we are proposing a 35% share
of the total amount to be given to you for your services and involvement in this
transaction while the balance 65% will be shared among us (the committee
members).



We shall use our connections to arrange for all the necessary documents that
will be required to make this possible as one of Nigeria’s contractors who is
being owed after having completed his contract.


In other to facilitate this, we will want you to reconfirm your following
details to us: 1. Full names. 2. Company’s name (if applicable) 3. Current
address. 4. Current telephone number. 5. Scanned copies of your valid
Identification 8. Company’s certificate of registration (if available).


It will be appreciated if you will urgently get back to us if you think you can
handle this for us so that we will discuss further with you on the modalities we
have set up to effectively carry out this transaction. Send your reply to:
secretarynasscfdrp@ymail.com


Needless for me to remind you of the need for you to maintain utmost
confidentiality towards this transaction considering our position personalities.


Thank you.


Yours sincerely,


Hon. Abike Dabiri Erewa,
(Secretary),
For: The National Assembly Committee on Foreign
Debt Reconciliation and Payment (NACFDRP),
The National Assembly,
National assembly complex,
Federal Capital Territory,
Abuja – Nigeria.



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