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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: "CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mrsblessingd@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 13:57:57 +0100
Subject: YOUR PAYMENT, AN INSIGHT

From: Mrs. Blessing David
Abuja, Nigeria.
Email: mrsblessingd@yahoo.com

Attn: Sir

I have been watching with keen interest your transaction for some time now since I started working here again as a Clerk under the office of the Director on Foreign Payments. I have worked as the Assistant to the Deputy Director and was demoted when they found out that I have never been in support of their shady deals, they wrote petition against me and I was moved to the Finance Ministry but now I am back to continue my good work which I believe in transparency to humanity and not you.

Though I am in a lower department and position this time I still have access to transfer files .I have gone through your file and have found out that you have completed all that is required of you to have your payment released into your account but the greed which exist in the lives of the Directors of the Foreign Payment, Central Bank of Nigeria, and other approved paying Banks here will not let them do what they are supposed to do. I am happy for the good President we have in Nigeria today who is not like the former president Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo.

About your payment, it has long been due and approved for payment but because of the amount involved which is above $5M, the Directors of Foreign Payment with the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Dr. Jim Ovie of Zenith Bank and other Bank Directors will never let you know what to do to get your funds transferred to your account because of their personal wants for accumulation of money. Your payment was approved again to be paid which they gambled with and held the payment back because of the same greed. The money you have spent in the past is nothing compared to what they make from your funds through what we call International Trade on Stock and Exchange. This is what Prof. Charles Soludo, Sanusi and the Zenith Bank Director introduced to all of them, telling them never to release your already approved payment so that they can use it to trade on the International Market on 60 days intervals and make 10% of the amount. Check out how much they must have made with your paym!
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This is one secret most of our foreign beneficiaries are not aware of and they need someone to stand for them to clear this and make them get their payments within 48 hours. To be frank with you, if I had contacted you earlier, you would have received this money in your account directly today through KTT wire transfer because I know their secret which they believe no one else is aware of or will be intimidated to speak up.

All you have to do is to work with Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) and they will get this document for you, file in the document directly to the Office of the President and the President will endorse and once that is done, the document will be sent to Central bank and automatically, they will contact you for remittance and the good thing is that once you have obtained this document, you will pay NOTHING to the Bank for any kind of Transfer fees as the same document will instruct the bank to deduct all fees from the original sum. I do not want you to let anyone know that I contacted you please for the sake of my life but I thought it was okay for me to reach you and I decided to use my private email address for this. My position now is shaky, so if I have to leave here, I will leave being justified by making sure that I expose them and help the cheated to receive their monies.

All the Directors Dr. Jerry Gana, Mr. Paul Sule, and Sanusi, Jim Ovie and others will never tell you about the Irrevocable Presidential Permit (IPP) because they know that once you have gotten this document, they will NEVER have any reason to delay your payment for more than 48 hours. This document is usually obtained through the Association of Nigeria Lawyers popularly called the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Court of Justice, and the Presidency.

They will never let you have the Idea of this because they want to keep making money with your funds which they believe is not an offense because Sanusi and the African Development Bank Director , as bank directors have the right to place any unclaimed funds in the Escrow Account of the Central Bank of Nigeria overseas so when they do that, they claim that the payment has not yet been approved. The only way you can get this payment now is to immediately get the Irrevocable Presidential Permit (IPP) and once you have this document, it will be filed directly to the office of the President for an immediate release order.

This is what I was doing for some beneficiaries and the Directors suspected and kicked against me. I have no interest in your money, I have no interest in what they do too but my anger is that they use and dump us not because we want to share money with them but because they think we know nothing about their deals. Please assure me that no one will know about this and it will be secret until you have received the document and take them by surprise. I am so sorry for all you have gone through. You can get through my email: mrsblessingd@yahoo.com. I am waiting for your response.

Regards,

Mrs. Blessing David

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