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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: Sanusi <mallam987@yahoo.com.co>
Reply-To: sanunsicbn@sify.com
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 06:32:27 -0500
Subject: APPROVAL FUND TRANSFER



I want you to understand that this mail was sent on Saturday morning,
20th of December 2012 waiting to receive Urgent Response immediately,
please i will let you to get back to me as soon as possible.

I never knew or have any idea that you never receive your fund what i
heard that you are dead suddenly group of people came to my office to
claim your fund before i heard that it's a rumors and later i heard
that you are alive I Really I thank God, i am very sorry concerns all
this rumors.

Actually I am not in charge of remitting fund to beneficiaries
account, I only approves your payment and instruct the remittance
department to remit the fund to the beneficiary bank account and since
nobody informed me anything again about your fund, what hard that you
are not alive that you are dead which some group of people enter into
my office and told me that they came to claim your fund on your behalf
with some some document and require fees and you have to make that payment
for the Release of your fund because every beneficiary is doing that.

Note, i never I believed you have not received the fund as I
approved and I never contacted you personally before concerning your
payment, it is very sad that unknown people are impersonating my name
for their selfish interest.

On my investigation after I received your email, I found out that the
problem you are having in receiving your fund is because you haven't
sign the 9 original hard-copies of your fund release bond here in the
remittance department of the central bank. I don’t know why nobody
told you about it that your fund release bond must be signed before
any payment can be made to you. Without signing the bond, you will
continue having the same problems in receiving your fund US$30M
(THIRTY MILLION UNITED STATE OF AMERICA DOLLARS)

You need to come or hire accredited attorney of the central bank to
sign the documents on your behalf so that you will be recognized by
the government as the rightful owner/beneficiary of the fund and the
government will gives their approvals to the central bank to transfer
the fund to your account without delay. Such fund cannot be transfer
out of this country without the government approvals US$30M.

This is why people have been taking advantage of you because you did
not sign your fund release bond and the government is not aware of
anything happening to you and your payment even your coming to Nigeria
is unknown to the government. It is only when your fund release bond
are signed, I will be in full control to make the fund transfer to
your account as you will provide. Once you get the documents signed,
leave the rest for me if you are willing to help my family, I will do
my best to help you receive your fund (THIRTY MILLION UNITED STATE OF
AMERICA DOLLARS.

So you now have the Lawful Right to proceed for the Claim of your Fund
now from this office and please, kindly do re-confirm to the
information below to avoid Wrongful diversion of your fund into a
Wrong Account as we've had several cases like that of Wrong
Beneficiary Details, the essence of this is to enable this office
process and finalize for the release of your fund into your nominated
bank Account without further delay.

But we wanted to confirm if actually this is true and decided to write to
your email address for confirmation, which after Two (2) week from today
and there is no response, we shall then carry out payment in their
favor. At this development I asked them who authorized them to come
down to Nigeria and also United State of America confirmed that also
for the Collection of this Payment and they told me that you asked
them to come and collect this funds on your Behalf.

In fact this was the biggest shock that this Bank have ever received
so far because your Inheritance /overdue funds is still in the Federal
Suspense
Account of C B N, yet you sent these men to come and collect this
Funds on your behalf without notifying us.

and receipt of this confidential Letter, you are required to call
this +2348075668831
Bank immediately you receive this confidential Letter.

but if you Do Furnish us with the information below to enable us
proceed with the payment of your fund:-

your full name-----, Account bank number/ bank info---

Text Code--------------

Text Question------------------

Security Question-------------

Account of the Password-------------

Bank Name----------------------

A scan copy of your
international passport-----
Phone Number-----------------

Office address--------------

House phone Number------

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