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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.Tunde Lemo" <greatminds005@shuf.com>
Reply-To: directorcompensation@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 06:40:22 +0900
Subject: YOU HAVE BEEN COMPENSATED

OFFICE OF THE SENATE HOUSE
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA
COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN PAYMENT
(RESOLUTION PANEL ON CONTRACT PAYMENT)
IKOYI-LAGOS NIGERIA

Our Ref: FGN /SNT/STB Your ref:

ATTN: Dear Honourable Contractor,

We, the entire members of the Federal House of Senate, on behalf of the
Federal Republic of Nigerian Government, under the auspices of the
civilian Head of State, President GOODLUCK JONATHAN held a meeting last week
concerning payment, both foreign and local contractors and some
inheritance funds.

On going through files yesterday, we discovered that your file was dumped
untreated, so at this juncture, we apologize for the delay of your payment
and please stop communicating with any office now and attention to the
appointed office below for you to receive your payment accordingly.

Now your new Payment Reference No.-35460021, Allocation No: 674632
Password No: 339331, Pin Code No: 55674 and your Certificate of Merit
Payment No: 103, Released Code No: 0763; Immediate Telex confirmation No:
-1114433; Secret Code No: XXTN013, Having received these vital payment
number, therefore You are qualified now to received and confirm Your
payment with the Federal Government of Nigeria immediately within 24hrs.

Now you are Directed to contact the Office of the Chairman Contract Award
Division of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation. BARRISTER FESTUS
KEYAMO immediately so that he will pay you and fax you the copy of payment
Slip and also you should reconfirm your bank Details, this is to avoid
mistake while transferring your overdue payment to you.

His Contact Details are:

FIGHT4JUSTICE_NG@YAHOO.CO.UK

Contact him now and inform him that you received an email from the House
of Senate Federal Republic of Nigeria, Instructing you to write him for
immediate release of your contract fund.

NOTE: We have mounted our security network to monitor every in-coming
call, if we still find out that you are still dealing with all those
fraudsters that have been frustrating our efforts and defrauding
beneficiaries, we shall stop and cancel your payment immediately.

Best Regards

Dr.Femi Fafawora
FROM SENATE HOUSE (CBN)
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA.

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