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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: "IGP MOHAMMED DAHIRU ABUBAKAR MNI" <fraudunit@nigerianpolice.org>
Reply-To: inspectorgeneral.personal@yahoo.cn
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 02:07:20 +0900
Subject: Re: A REPORT ON YOUR DEALING WITH IMPOSTORS VIA THE INTERNET.




FORCE HEAD QUARTERS
LOUIS EDET HOUSE
SHEHU SHAGARI WAY
P.M.B 266
ABUJA, NIGERIA
www.npf.gov.ng

MOTTO : TO SERVE AND PROTECT WITH INTEGRITY
FROM THE DESK OF MOHAMMED DAHIRU ABUBAKAR MNI
INSPECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA
CABLEGRAM: NPFIGMOK

Good Day,

Re: A REPORT ON YOUR DEALING WITH IMPOSTORS VIA THE INTERNET.

Investigations revealed that you have spent a lot of your personal earned
money just to conclude the successful transfer of your Inheritance fund to
your bank account by obtaining transfer documents as requested by
imposter's, costing you a lot of money but all to no avail. In the process
of our Investigation, we noticed that the reason why you have not received
your Inheritance fund is because you have been making contact with the
wrong set of people who claimed to be somebody else just to extract and
steal money from you.

We are very sorry for any inconvenience or lost these might have caused
you in any way and i want to use these medium to assure you that your
Inheritance fund will be released to you along with all the money you lost
to those thieves and i must tell you at this point in time that you should
have reported the issue to the Nigeria police before you started sending
money to Nigeria but not to worry, we are on top of the situation now and
i no that those involved in this act will be brought to justice for given
this great country a bad name and influence all over the world.

Meanwhile Your long overdue Inheritance fund is still available and will
be released to you via the real Central Bank of Nigeria under the
governorship of the real Central Bank Governor Mr. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi.
As soon as we verify that all you told us about been scammed is real, i
will send you a protocol to contact Barrister David Ogunseye, a well
respected attorney of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, he will represent
you and freely help you get all necessary documents to transfer your fund
to your bank account under the watching eyes of the Nigeria police, the
F.B.I and the E.F.C.C without any delay.

Note: The reason why we are directing you to Barr. David Ogunseye is
because, the real Central Bank of Nigeria has stopped making contact with
beneficiaries through the Internet due to the rate of scam here in our
country, the fraudsters have been using the name of Central Bank of
Nigeria to scam people and all this happen through the Internet so to
differentiate themselves from those fraudsters all beneficiaries are
required to travel down to Nigeria and make their claims and since you
cannot make it to Nigeria, a Barrister in the name of Barr. David Ogunseye
was assigned to represent you and make the transfer arrangements for you
by helping you obtain the relevant documents without you paying for them
because they are free and can be obtained with the rightful information,
the fraudsters request money for this documents because they don't have
access to it but lie to you just to extract money from you.

Please get back to us with the below information for verification purpose:

Full Name:
Country of Origin:
Age:
Occupation:
Marital Status:
Present contact address:
Direct Telephone number:
Scanned copy of Identity:

As soon as we receive these information from you, you will be directed to
Barrister David Ogunseye for further proceeding for the release of your
fund. Note that your real total Inheritance sum of $15.5 Million Dollars
will be released to you as soon as we make our verification that you are
who you say you are and that the information which you gave to us about
being scammed is true.

Once again, We apologize on behalf of the President and the good people of
Nigeria for any delay and lost those fraudsters must have coursed you in
any way and we promise that such thing will not happen again in the future
and should in case you are currently dealing with any one of them
regarding your fund, we urge you to stop further contact with them
immediately as you are taking a very big risk and it might interest you to
know that you will never get your fund from them as they have nothing to
offer you but lies just to extract money from you.The imposter's will
continue coming up with expenses, excuses and thereby requesting for more
money from you for this and that and they will never stop until you go
Bankrupt, so for your own good, you are advised to STOP further
communication with them immediately and send all your corresponding email
communication with them to us for further investigation.

Finally, we are expecting to hear from you today unfailingly so as to
enable us serve you better.

Remain blessed in Jesus name.

MOHAMMED DAHIRU ABUBAKAR MNI
INSPECTOR-GENERAL OF POLICE

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