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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: "Dr. Desmond Aku" <tes@jogjaprov.go.id>
Reply-To: desmond.aku_cbn@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 07:07:00 +0700
Subject: INSTRUCTION TO REMIT?

Attn: Dear Sir,

Following the resolution of a board meeting and approval for payment of
all verified contract/inheritance beneficiaries payment held up in the
Central Bank of Nigeria and most of our Commercial banks and foreign
correspondent banks for unconstitutional reasons.
Be informed that an Irrevocable Payment approval was given and endorsed by
the following high governmental bodies having found your payment
entitlement satisfactory after due scrutinisation. This meeting was held
in conjuction with the Senators in this Committee, the National Economic
Council, The Presidency, directors in charge of Project implimentation
involved in various contracts, the Bankers Committee on banking and
Finance, and the Chief Economic Adviser to the President, Federal Republic
of Nigeria respectively.

To this effect, this committee has approved that your payment will be made
on waiver value depending on the category your fund falls. The waiver
value is where you have any outstanding payment to be made to the Nigerian
Government or any other relevant payment authority. I am constrained to
inform you that Mr Dewey A. Wagner from the USA came to our office
accompanied with BARRISTER. FEMI TUNDE a legal practitioner in the Federal
Republic of Nigeria in respect of your payment funds that you are his
associate and unfortunately you died in a Fatal car accident. On further
cross examination, they tendered some documents (photocopies which are
quite convincing, US$25,000.00 was offered so as to enable me facilitate a
speedy transfer with a sworn affidavit from our Federal High Court stating
that you died in a car accident and the court granted them authority over
your payment.

Being stunned with this shocking news of your death, in sympathy and most
importantly for religious reasons I refused the US$25,000.00 offered to
me, but I accepted the documents and told them to come back in a week’s
time to enable me work on the file.
On a second thought I decided to communicate to you in other to confirm
the authenticity of this information. I will therefore be appreciative who
ever that may receive this letter concerned to reply me immediately, if
after 48hrs this committee did not receive any response from you, we will
conciously agree that the information/documents tendered to this committee
is true and process the release of the said payment and effect an
immediate transfer to the below account forwarded by Mr. Dewey A. Wagner
and his Nigerian associate, as this fund is still floating in our payment
schedule.

Account of Dewey Wagner;
Bank of America, 600 East William Street, Carson City, Nevada 89701.
Routing number ABA# 122400724, Customer A/C # 004961708340,For further
credit to Delta Funding Int’l Inc. for Dewey A. Wagner Inc., Ltd
(Contract).

Also on no account must you contact these partners any more, this is for
my own safety
and for the security of the funds. Because they will not get this fund and
also on no
account must you let them know of my contact with you.
Please reply this message urgently for further details.

Yours faithfully,

Dr. Desmond Aku
Tel: +234 8167424101,
Chairman, Payment Review Committee.



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