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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: "Jane Oparah" <janoparah@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: jnecoparah@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 16:39:03 +0800
Subject: All I know about your Payment

Dear Beneficiary,

I have been watching with keen interest your transaction for some time now
since I started working here again as a Clark under the office of the Director
on Foreign Payments. I have worked as the Assistant to the Deputy Director and
was demoted when they found out that I have never been in support of their
shady deals, they wrote petition against me and I was moved to the Finance
Ministry and now I am back to continue my good work which I believe that only
God is the one to pay me back and not you though in a lower department and
position.

I have gone through your file and have found out that you have completed all
that is required of you to have your payment released into your account but
the greed which exist in the lives of the Directors of the Foreign Payment,
Central Bank of Nigeria, and other approved paying Banks here will not let
them do what they are supposed to do I thank God for the new Governor of
Central bank and good President he gave to Nigeria who are not like the former
Governor and president Gen.Olusegun Obasanjo who was the master minder of all
the corruptions here at the Presidency.

About your payment, it has long been due and approved for payment but because
of the amount involved which is above $1M, the Directors of Foreign Payment
with the former Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria Prof. Charles Soludo, Dr.
Jim Ovie of Zenith Bank and other Bank Directors will never let you know what
to do to get your funds transferred to your account because of their personal
wants for money. Your payment was approved again to be paid which they gambled
with and called the payment back because of the same greed. The money you have
spent in the past is nothing compared to what they make from your funds
through what we call International Trade on Stock and Exchange.

This is what Prof. Charles Soludo and the Zenith Bank Director introduced to
all of them, telling them never to approve your payment so that they can use
it to trade on the International Market on 60 days interval and make 10% of
the amount. Check out how much they must have made with your payment since it
was first approved for transfer. This is one secret most of our foreign
beneficiaries are not aware of and they need someone to stand for them to
clear this and make them get their payments within 48 hours. To be frank with
you, if I had contacted you last week, you would have received this money in
your account directly today through KTT wire transfer because I know their
secret which they believe no one else is aware of.

All you have to do is to work with Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) and they
will get this document for you, file in the document directly to the Office of
the President and request for an immediate approval by the President and once
that is done, the document will be sent to Central bank and automatically,
they will contact you for remittance and the good thing is that once you have
obtained this document, you will pay NOTHING to the Bank for any kind of
Transfer fees as the same document will instruct the bank to deduct all fees
from the original sum. I do not want you to let anyone know that I contacted
you please for the sake of my life but I thought it was okay for me to reach
you and I decided to use my private email address for this.

My position now is shaking so if I have to leave here, I will leave being
justified by making sure that I expose them and help the cheated to receive
their monies. All the Directors Dr. Jerry Gana, Mr. Paul Sule, and Prof.
Soludo, Jim Ovie and others will never tell you about the Irrevocable
Presidential Permit (IPP) because they know that once you have gotten this
document, they will NEVER have any reason to delay your payment for more than
48 hours. This document is usually issued by the Association of Nigeria
Lawyers popularly called the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Court of Justice,
and the President himself.

Now tell me, if the NBA backs you as their client, the Court of Justice
Approves you as the True Beneficiary and the President says pay the
beneficiary, who is bank and it's Directors to say no and delay your payment
for one extra day? They will never let you have the Idea of this because they
want to keep making money with your funds which they believe is not an offence
because Prof. Charles Soludo and the African Development Bank Director as
bank directors have the right to place any unclaimed funds in the Escrow
Account of the Central Bank of Nigeria overseas so when they do that, they
claim that the payment has not yet been approved.

The only way you can get this payment now is to immediately get the
Irrevocable Presidential Permit (IPP) and once you have this document, you
will file it in directly to the office of the President for an immediate
release order.

This is what I was doing for some clients and the Directors found out and
kicked against me. I have no interest in your money, I have no interest in
what they do too but my anger is that they use and dump us not because we want
to share money with them but because they think we know nothing about their
deals. Please assure me that no one will know about this and it will be secret
until you have received the document and take them by surprise.

Sincerely,

M/s. Jane Oparah

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