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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: John P. Okey <paulbelda4342@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: johnokay11111@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2012 17:44:49 +0100
Subject: Urgent Attention

>From the Desk of: Mr. John P. Okey, Manager, Foreign Surveillance Dept.
Central Bank of Nigeria.
Tel.: 234-80-25781250

Attn: Beneficiary

I am delighted to contact you on a private note based on the confidentiality of this deal, my name is Mr John P. Okey, Manager Foreign Surveillance Dept.
Central Bank of Nigeria. I am writing to you based on the contract inheritance you have been pursuing for a couple of years now which proved all abortive.
I make this direct approach to you in order not to let it be as if I have anything in mind against you. I do not know if you have asked yourself why each time the release of this fund is approved, all of a sudden, the payment will be stopped or one problem or the other will come up. If you have not asked this question you will never understand the fact, this is an opportunity for me to tell you.

Sometime ago, your Nigerian friends, I mean those who introduced you into this contract inheritance approached me through my dear wife, Mrs. Mercy Okey who works with the Federal Ministry of Finance and requested me to assist them to conclude a money transfer deal they had with you, they requested me to assist them by removing the original contractor's name, company’s name and his bank particulars in Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Vetting and replacing them with your name and your bank details in order to make you appear as the rightful beneficiary of this fund:

I agreed on conditions that they would pay me US$300,000 as soon as your name appears as the beneficiary. I did as agreed and demanded to be paid but your friends started telling me stories and decided to go through the International Remittance Dept. not knowing that the international remittance dept. is also under my control, then I got their evil plans and proved their early efforts abortive.

This is why I decided to contact you since your name has been enlisted along with other beneficiaries to receive their funds.

I want you to understand that due to the circumstances we find ourselves we are just like brothers and desire to be truthful to each order, I have made all the necessary arrangement to lift the funds through Diplomatic delivery with the help of one agent lukeman john of the International Fund Monitoring unit, New York USA ( IFMU ) , I have approached him and presented all the necessary documents he required, after examining all the documents and proper investigation on the origin of the fund he approved the deal, promising to use his immunity to fly the fund to New York.

Take note sir, the security company is under the international fund monetary unit ( UN ) as their storage house,they do not accept individual consignment but only diplomatic luggage. Agent lukeman john is using his immunity to assure us of the safety of the fund, he told me that he is going to tag the consignment as precious stone and will declare it to the company as precious stone he assured me that I should not worry, that it is 100% risk-free as I was a bit worried, well we are going to expect the arrival of the consignment in New York, he told me that the lady that will be receiving the consignment, and that her name is Mrs. Lewis Jackson. further information will be given to you upon the arrival of the consignment at New York for the clearing.

The security code number and the size of the consignment will be given to you as soon as the consignment is sealed, ready for air-lifting. Take note that you must keep this information confidential for security reasons as I have gone through a lot of attack in my office trying to make this work out,

Permit me to give you some reasons why you have not been able to receive this payment earlier before now. Your partners who introduced you into this deal initially had good intentions to develop a good relationship with you by using your account to transfer this amount valued at the tune of $10.5Million. The documentation was secured in your name, an affidavit was obtained from the judiciary and an approval was obtained from the ministry where the contract was executed, that is the ( NNPC ). There was an approval from various ministries, Prof. Charles Soludo happened to be the Central Bank Governor as at then, the name of the group managing director of NNPC was Egr. Gaius Obaseki who happened to be the man who disguised himself to contact you, that he has a business relationship to use your account for the transfer of the over-invoiced fund approved by NNPC ( $10.5Million ). The original contract value was $520.Million and the contract was well executed and the foreign firm was duly paid, leaving the over-invoiced bill for Gaius Obaseki.

The name of the contractor who executed this contract valued at $520M is Mr. Bruce Gate, the husband of late Anna Gate. Both of them are late now. Mr. Bruce died in a plane crash after his contract with NNPC and the wife, Anna Gate died of breast cancer. This is the very story the scammers are using in Nigeria to scam people which is on the internet everywhere.

Beware of this story of Anna Gate.


Now, here the problem came in, when the Federal Government of Nigerian discovered the fraudulent act of Gaius Obaseki, his appointment as the group managing director of NNPC was terminated, then he went back to meet with Soludo being the Central Bank Governor in position of the $10.5M. He worked out for himself, he requested and instructed that the fund be sent into a different account in United States which happened not to be your account any longer, in order to divert the agreement with you and deny you the fund after you came all the way long with him, then Soludo refused to do as instructed because he had interest in the fund, then there came a misunderstanding between them, now Soludo, knowing that Obaseki was no longer in office and knowing that this was an over-invoiced contract payment he threatened to expose Gaius Obaseki, Gaius could not open up to anyone about the problem between him and Soludo, Prof.Soludo himself could have had the fund transferred into a local account for himself, but for security purpose he did not find it pleasing to have a deal with you in transferring the fund into your account because he did not know you, these things were going on before his appointment was terminated and both of them became losers.

Then I now resumed as the director, International Remittance Department (CBN), now I considered your name as the original beneficiary whose name appeared in all the payment documents to receive this fund and it makes no meaning to me to look for a different person to claim the fund. Can you see the reason why I said we are like brothers and desire to be truthful to each other?

I will give you further information on how to receive my own percentage of %30 as I cannot come down to USA because of my position in the office.

Finally here is my code with you for security purposes to avoid interception
(BC1) meaning BUSINESS CONFIDENTIAL 1
whenever I call you I must confirm this code to you before further discussion as I will always use it as subject matter. Be very careful Sir.

Thank you for the cooperation. I will leave you here now in faith and hope to meet you again in faith,

Regards,
Mr. John P. Okey,
Manager Foreign Surveillance Dept.Central Bank of Nigeria
BC1

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