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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: "OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR GENERAL" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <info.off@minister.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 15:22:45 -0600
Subject: Pls. Do Not Disregard this Email.

From:
The Office of The Director General.
Budget Office of the Federation.
Email: info.off@minister.com

Assigned Beneficiary.

It is my greatest pleasure writing you today, considering all the staunch commitment,pursuit and all you have encountered in the course to have your overdue fund got credited to you as approved by the Nigerian government but all your efforts yield no positive result. I am glad to inform you that at last your payment file endorsement has been a SUCCESS, as members of the National House of Assembly had signed into law the Excess Crude Oil Allocation for foreign debt settlement and reconciliation as part of government efforts to restore back the country dastard image globally.

Since all your effort in the past were met with various failures and disappointments due to series of falsification, multiple account(s) presentation and other illegible material originating from both local and international representatives which militated your efforts and ability to receive your fund with the approved provisions in place. All these for sure gave you false hope but unknowingly to you, those documents in your possession can not hold water and are not genuinely obtained documents from government establishment as claimed, therefore it isn't tenable for any financial establishment to endorse.

As I mentioned above, my office has receive the mandate and a manifest from the Ministry of Finance and you are among the enlisted beneficiary that my office is to attend to accordingly and obtain legible documents from genuine and recommended government accredited issuers. So, I am compel with this fact to reach and provide you with modalities to receive your fund in most appropriate fashion that conforms with financial modules as soon as you respond to this email with your full payment details/information you can lay your hands on.

The sum of $5,700,000 million (USD$5.7m) was allocated in your favour and contained in Classified Treasury Bonds, and will be processed at the immediate submission of 3 newly introduced documents as directed by the Federal Government and verifiable at the concerned offices respectively.

I will appreciate your prompt response alongside your payment details so I can advice you further on how to obtain these documents and bring things into fruition.

Human regards,

Dr. Bright Okogu
Director General
Budget Office of The Federation

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