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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: "E.F.C.C OFFICE" <info_financialbank@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: efcc.ng7174@yahoo.fr
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:52:44 +0100 (BST)
Subject: FROM EFCC HEAD OFFICE












             FROM MR IBRAHIM LAMORDE)
           
 ECONOMIC 
AND FINANCIAL
CRIMES COMMISSION
                          NIGERIA INVESTIGATION BUREAU
                                
 15A AWOLOWO ROAD, IKOYI
                          
                  LAGOS
NIGERIA.
                                         
                                 Motto:
No Body is Above the LAW
 
 
 

ATTENTION: 


Take
notice that based on the Federal Government  inauguration of this committee
which extended to all Africa countries and Europe,
the Economic
and Financial Crimes
Commission -
(EFCC) have combined with the United
Nation Anti-crime
commission to alleviate and redeem the image and past wounds of our dear
citizens and foreign firms who were duped, defrauded,scammed and abandoned by
some impostors who indiscriminately use the name of God, Office of governors,
Presidency, Banks etc to slight down our dignities to international
communities.Many banks have been in bankruptcy today, Universal firms, Companies
due to the activity of these hoodlums,However, investigation have shown that
these people have duped over 500,000,00  clients after collecting their money
false fully, many committed suicide and others living by the grace of God,We see
this country as a treasonable felony and have over 500 convicts at hand, 300 in
kirikri prisons while many are still on trial,We still fetch for others who feel
they are wise and hope that you will be our friend by giving us more
information. Success Stories:

Meanwhile,
after the international peace talk summit between the United
Nation {USA},Nigeria, United
Kingdom and
other countries, in order to maintain / rebuild our international relationship
between Nigeria and your country among other countries, the Federal
government of
Nigeria have
now decided to send this message to unlimited end of the world with the hope of
finding all those that have been victimized be these con men that
unconditionally scam people out of their hard earn money, so that they can be
compensated after due verification that you have truly been victimized. In other
words you are to respond to this mail, if only you know and have prove that you
have been scammed out of your fund before,either by means of Next Of Kin,
Contract With The NNPC , Lottery or any other story and upon ascertaining that
you have been scammed, you shall be compensated from the Nigeria foreign reserve
fund and the money confiscated from some of these scammers which have been
apprehended by the federal government.
 
In
view of this, you are to forward your complains to the complains section and you
are advised to give us a detailed information about your involvement with these
scammers and how they collected your money from you.

CONTACT
COMPLAINS AND  INVESTIGATION DEPARTMENT :
15A
Awolowo Road, Ikoyi,
Lagos -
Nigeria.
through email address below

 
ENDEAVOR 
TO PROVIDE THE FOLLOWING DETAILS OF YOURS ALONG WITH YOUR
COMPLAINS:

YOUR
FULL NAMES:...............................
RESIDENTIAL
ADDRESS:.....................
OCCUPATION:.............................................
YOUR
TELEPHONE NUMBER:..............
NATIONALITY:..............................................
STATE:..........................................................
AGE:..............................................................

As
soon as we receive these information from you, a swift investigation will
commence and at the end we promise that whoever is involved in your plight shall
be apprehended and handed over to the government and you shall be compensated
accordingly.

This
Decision is supported and approved courtesy: INTERNATIONAL
MONETARY
FUND{I.M.F}
, UNITED
NATION SECRET
SERVICE ,
EUROPE ,
AMERICA AND THE ECOWAS COMMUNITIES.

Thanks
for your co-operation.

Yours
faithfully,
 

     
EFCC
Executive Chairman, Mr Ibrahim Lamorde
Executive Chairman.

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