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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: FOREIGN EXCHANGE ALLOCATION DEPT <drekeokon@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2012 06:43:55 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: PAYMENT RELEASE"


From the Desk of:
Dr Eke Okon
Foreign Exchange Allocation dept.

Attention: Beneficairy.

Ref: Confirmation on contract payment release No: NNPC/PED/0X6/PH-REFINERY/2000 VALUED AT $35MILLION DOLLARS ONLY"

This is to reconfirm to you that your above contract payment is now due and approved for release. Your payment file has been checked and shows that you have paid all charges for the release of your payment. You are hereby advised to reconfirm your full name, cell phone number, and bank account details.

Your payment will be released immediately your reconfirmed information is received within 48hrs.The federal Government as a matter of urgency wants all outstanding contract payment to be released in order to let them schedule and prepare the year 2013 budget. Do not hesitate to call this office and reconfirm your details. Although I know that you are having dealings with so many people but I want to give you this as a warning, do not disclose my contact to any one you are having dealings with.

So many beneficiaries have suffered a lot because of having dealings with people that are not responsible in their life people that claims to have authority to release their payment but at the end, nothing comes out of it rather have their money collected from them without fulfilling their promises.Therefore,you are strongly advise to terminate all communication with those people and face relaity.Some of these people will use Government forged website to contact and have dealings with beneficiary and beneficiary will now have confident that they are dealing with the right person that will release their payment.

Finally I am advising you to deal directly with this office and also, this office deals directly with beneficiaries without any second party. Any dealing outside this office is at your won risk and Government will not be held responsible for your wrong act dealings.

Your prompt responses to this message will hence the release of your payment without any delay. And you should feel free to call me. And you to be less curious with my email id, the use arise due to forged government website criminals are using to defraud beneficiary that made the Government issuing a standing order that official handling financial matters must use their personal email id for quick detection if anything goes wrong with beneficiary’s payment.

Yours Faithfully.
Dr Eke Okon
Tel: 234-81-55890020

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