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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: "Inspector-General of Police" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <fmf.unit101@info.al>
Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2011 01:35:43 -0500
Subject: From: Hafiz Abubakar Ringim , Inspector General of The Nigeria Police Force.

THE NIGERIA POLICE FORCE (NPF)
Plot 1634 Ibosi Alausa
Ikeja-Lagos.PMB 072
Lagos Nigeria.

From: Hafiz Abubakar Ringim , Inspector General of The Nigeria Police Force.

Your Kind Attention,

This is to officially inform you, that it has come to our notice with the help of our Intelligence Monitoring Network System that you are having an illegal Transaction with some Impostors claiming to be official representatives locally and internationally.

Without taking much of your time, my name is Hafiz Abubakar Ringim , the Inspector General of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

During our Investigation, we noticed that the reason why you have not received your payment is because you have not fulfilled your Financial Obligation given to you in respect of your Contract/Inheritance/compensation Payment.

Therefore we have contacted the Federal Ministry of Finance (FMF) on your behalf, in other to avoid any further complication or deviation of your funds; you are advice to stop all further contact with this shameless people who are trying to rip out money from you and damage the good name of our country.

Since we the Nigeria Police Force is fully involved in this transaction, you are assured that this 100% risk free it is our duty to protect the American Citizens and other countries too from being rip off their hard earn money.

You are advice to contact the Federal Ministry of Finance (FMF) stating your Contract/Inheritance/compensation Funds value to them via email, to enable them with the remittance of your funds according to the way you want them to pay you.

HIS NAME AND CONTACT ARE AS FOLLOW:
Name: Mr. Olusegun Olutoyin Aganga
Email:fmf.unit101@info.al


Kindly contact Federal Ministry of Finance (FMF) today, and send the below information to them to enable them with the remittance of your funds according to the way you want to receive your funds.

1.Full Name:
2.Home Address:
3.Direct Phone Number::
4.Your Inheritance/compensation sum value:
5.Amount which you lost previously:

Note: this is all that is required from you, because you are not going to pay any fee/money to get back your Contract/Inheritance/compensation funds.

Regards,
Hafiz Abubakar Ringim CFR, NPM, mni
Inspector-General of Police
Federal Republic of Nigeria







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