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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: "Dr. Bright Okogu" <offcontax@gmail.com>
Reply-To: <off.ail@minister.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 09:25:13 +0000
Subject: Pls. Do Not Disregard this Email.



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From:
The Office of The Director General.
Budget Office of the Federation.
Email: off.ail@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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