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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: "BARRISTER FRANCIS OGBUAGU" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <francisogbuagu@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 06:02:52 -0700
Subject: I Seek Your Approval

BARRISTER FRANCIS OGBUAGU
FEDERAL RESERVE TREASURY AUTHORITY,
NO 70 LEKKI LANE, OLODI APAPA LAGOS,
LAGOS NIGERIA.
BARRISTER FRANCIS OGBUAGU


I am BARRISTER FRANCIS OGBUAGU a solicitor at Lawyer. I am contacting you based on business grounds. I do a lot of investigation in matters that I presume may be profitable to me and my organization (Maya Ford & Associates)

In the light of this, I visited the Federal Ministry of Finance Office here in my country for a matter, unfortunately, I mate your payment file, your payment worth million of United States Dollars was placed on hold and will be declared unserviceable if you do not put up further effort within 21 days to claims it, this means that you have ignored your payment for over a period of 6 12 months. it may result in lost of fund.

Consequently, I seek your approval to revoke this transaction and have your fund released and paid to you if only you will comply with the following terms hereinunder.

1. That I shall handle all the financial fees that may or will be procured at the expense of your payment process and completion. But, only after an official registeration with my firm as an official client.

2. That I shall be compensated by 10% of the total fund thereafter the fund hits your account.

If this term/conditions are acceptable by you, kindly reply back, I assure you that your fund will be paid to your account within 7 days from the day of my stepping into your case.

Regards

Thanks and God Bless you.
Barrister Francis.
FEDERAL RESERVE TREASURY AUTHORITY
(F.R.T.A)

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