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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: "Mr. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <smallamsanusilamidocbnq@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 20:25:28 +0100
Subject: Call me After a serious thought.

Office of the Central Bank Governor.
Mr. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi (CON)
No.8 (Plot 2704), Colorado Street,
Maitama Abuja.
TEL: + + 234 817626532
E-mail:smallamsanusilamidocbnq@yahoo.com
Attn: Beneficiary.
Dear Sir,
After a serious thought, I decided to reach you directly and personally because I do not have anything against you, but your Nigeria partners.
I am the Governor and the Wire Transfer/Telex department of the central bank of Nigeria, sometime in the past your Nigeria partners approached me through a friend of mine who works with one of the ministries here and requested that I assist them conclude a money transfer deal.
They gave me your name, company’s name and bank particulars and told me to put them into our computing system in the lab so that it will appears as if you are one of the genuine Beneficiary/ contractors that have been cleared for payment.
According to them, they wanted to use this strategy to transfer a huge amount of us dollars which they accumulated through inflated contract awards/ Inheritance payment and the money has been floating in the C.B.N since the original contractors/ Next of Kin has been paid so they wanted to use your account to transfer the surplus out of Nigeria. We agreed that once I do this, they would give me us$100,000.00 and give me another us$100,000.00 when I released the fund to your account.
When they saw that I have done that and your name has been approved among the list of those to be paid, instead of giving me the agreed deposit of us$100,000.00, they started avoiding me and resorted to threats. I immediately deleted the transfer code of the fund, which is only known to me because of my position, and release other contractor’s fund without yours.
They became angry the more when they saw that their threat did not work, and started bribing other officials to get another approval to transfer the money to you without success. Approvals are almost free is it not funny that a contractor is being asked to for approval while his millions is here with us? Approvals are just $1,100 not $1,500. I am 100% responsible for the delay, and obstructions because of their breach of contract.
If you doubt what I have just told you, pay any amount they will ask you to pay now, after a short time they will come up with another reason to pay again and it goes on and on. They are simply wicked.
Now if you want us to work together, these are my conditions.
I). I will have 30% of the money because it is only the two of us left for now.
2).You will assist my son to open an account in your country or any other place of my choice where I will pay in my own share.
3). as you have seen, it will be useless and mere waste of money if you continue with any other person, so we will conclude the transaction with utmost secrecy with the above e-mail address.
4). Note that my telephone number will be given to you as soon as you indicate your full interest to work with me.
5). If these conditions are acceptable to you, contact me as soon as possible to let us finalize to that I will fax to you our official kit wire transfer form to complete and I will release the money to your account. But, if you are not interested, I advise you to forget the fund as it will be transferred into our consolidated national reserve.
I am also aware of the fact that, you are still in contact with some uncouples elements that are claiming or purporting themselves as top Government Officials. Even your recent dealings with working with the payment centers in Europe /UK and some other countries of which you have even paid but to no avail. Note that, they have been deceiving you all they want is your money.
You have to stop communication with them or any group of persons that you are in contact with if, you want to work with me to get this problem settled. This is the truth of the matter and why you have not been able to receive this fund.
Best regards,
Mr. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi
Governor Central Bank of Nigeria (C.B.N).
+ 234 817626532

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