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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: "Debt Management Office" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <zenithbnkk@live.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 16:31:39 -0700
Subject: Dear Valued Customer,

Debt Management Office
Plot 12/14 Ahmadu Bello Way
Victoria Island, Lagos-Nigeria
Telephone: 234-8120246260     
 
Re:Transaction Report   
         
In close consultation with the World Bank, IMF and the European Union (EU) and  Central Bank Of Nigeria CBN, this is to notify you of your enlistment as a beneficiary of a recent Debt Management and Settlement Forum organized on the status of global arrangement to have your beneficiary fund settled once and for all. Of course, In the hope that you must have been aware of the past financial leakages in the European foreign inheritance payment system, and frustrations associated there from in your last attempt to claim the fund, wherein fund beneficiaries (like your self) was subjected to unnecessary bureaucratic bottlenecks in lieu of claiming funds due them.
       
The World Body, having solicited and received the cooperation of Nigerian Presidency, in harmonizing the sequence of payments, have discovered from records of outstanding foreign inheritance fund beneficiaries due them, that your name and payment has been withheld and remain unpaid as a result of such bottleneck. On the prompting of this finding, I wish to officially notify you
that all aspects of your payment claim is being harmonized, enabling payment to be released to you as urgently as you act on the instructions of this mail through this mode of payment ATM CARD.
 
Consequently, DEBT MANAGEMENT OFFICE. has been directed by the World Body to off set these outstanding debts, using ATM Visa Card payment arrangement. Already, a total amount of US$10.5Million has been provided to the Debt Management board with accrude interest for this purpose and it is on first come first serve. With this arrangement, I wish to inform you that Debt Management Baord Of Nigeria has been instructed to issue in your name an ATM Cash Card with the valued amount of US$10.5Million. In paying this amount to you, please note that it is without Prejudice to your original inheritance sum. Rather, it is a stop-gap payment arrangement put in place by the World Body to on the one hand ensure that you receive part of your fund, while on the other hand ensure that the process is smooth and without any form of stress whatsoever, whereas a comprehensive arrangement shall be made in future to pay off the remaining fund due you.
      
However, we are worried with the counter information received from one Mr. Jack Law, purporting to be from your directive, with express instruction to activate the ATM Cash Card for release of fund to his name a bank account in the "Cayman Islands"
 
Obviously, we are hesitant to honor this instruction as it were, and would request that you clarify same upon your contact with us In addition to that, we have received the following details to forestall any mistake of issuing the ATM Card with the wrong information already submitted by Mr. Jack Law:
       
Please reconform the following information's to enable us ascertain that you are the right beneficiray.
       
1) Address Where You Want Them To Send The Card Through Diplomatic Courier Service (P.O box Not Accepted)
2) Your Full Name And Total Amount You Are Expecting.
3) Your Contact Phone Number.
 
Note, your earliest response to this effect will be appreciated as the world body is making sure that your long agonies and pains in the past years is brought to a joyous end.
I look forward to hear from you.
 
Yours Faithfully,
 
Mr. Matthew Kamadu
Coordinating Officer
Debt Management Office
 

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