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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: Central Bank West Africa <cenbankwestafrica@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 10:38:22 -0700
Subject: RE: PAYMENT ON PRINCIPAL AND ACCRUED INTEREST.


Central Bank of West African States
Banque Centrale des États de l'Afrique de l'Ouest (BCEAO).
BIG, STRONG, RELIABL
OUR REF: CBW/435/xo/026

Date
22/06/ 2012.
Attn:Beneficiary,

RE: PAYMENT ON PRINCIPAL AND ACCRUED INTEREST OF US$5.1M

I am the EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR and Head of Swift Transfer Unit of Central
Bank of West Africa.,Cotonou,Republic of Benin.

Sometime ago, in our bank your contract/inheritance money was brought to
our bank from Nigerian Apex Bank, CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA (C.B.N) For the
period of time this money was in our bank, it generated an interest of US$
5.1 Million, which we are about to pay to you via Special Bank Instrument
directly to your account on the instruction from the transparency
international. As the CBN no is longer in charge of your payment this is
due to numerous petitions against the officials of Central Bank of
Nigeria.

For your information and advice, you need to hasten up to pick this Fund
because from time to time the C.B.N auditors do come to our bank to
cross-check our files and our financial update, the earlier you comply
with the demands of this payment of your fund, the faster the action,
because the CBN officials wants the accrued interest to be paid to them
but we refused, so when they find out that this interest fund is still in
our bank they will want to call back the money to the Federal Government
treasury.

What we need from you now is any form of your identification for example;
your international passport or your drivers license,and your contact
details and your telephone and fax number for easy communication with your
mailing address.

As a matter of fact we don’t have enough time to waste since we have
wasted time in contacting our respective customers, so try and comply with
the entire necessary requirement for remittance.



Yours Sincerely,


Johnson Martins,

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