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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. Kingsley Moghalu" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <addesk@mail.mn>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:07:33 -0800
Subject: POSITIVE RESOLUTION REGARDING YOUR OVERDUE PAYMENT

Attention Fund Beneficiary,
 
IMMEDIATE PAYMENT OF YOUR CONTRACT INHERITANCE FUND ON #:MAV/NNPC/FGN/MIN/11
I am Dr. Kingsley Moghalu, the New Appointed Director of operation F.O.D. Central Bank of Nigeria (MPC) and I am contacting you in regards of your overdue Inheritance fund yet to be paid to you.
 
Following series of complains by the United Nation, IMF and other International Agencies the 
Federal Governments has observed with great concern the high rate of corruption associated to settling of Contractors and other funds beneficiaries. for this reason in other to restore the reputation of this nation a bill was passed of recent for immediate and unconditional settlement of all outstanding payments in custody of the Central Bank and other related financial Institutions this last quarter of the year, and I am assigned by the presidency to the Ecowas committee to coordinate the entire process of this payments and ensure that every beneficiary receives his/her payment without further delay. Your contacts is amongst the list of certify beneficiaries in the data and the approve amount is US$ 10.5M.
Note that all previous payment arrangements have been officially cancelled. Payments is now
being made directly by F.O D. Central Bank of Nigeria (IMC) as advice by the committee with regards to certain Situations/mix-ups over these payments as a resort of malpractices perpetrated by some faceless officials in a suppose attempt of benefiting themselves by ways of forgeries, Inflating of contracts amounts, imposing of irrelevant fee's on beneficiaries in the aim of frustrating them and to later divert such payments etc. however' all that has been put to STOP. Everything is now under adequate control with the help of the United Nation, IMF, and the World Bank respectively.
 
You are hereby required to reconfirm your fund receiving information for immediate payment of your fund to you.
 
 
Yours Faithfully,
 
Dr. Kingsley Moghalu
Director of operation, F.O.D. Central Bank of Nigeria (MPC)

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