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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: "Senator Ehigie E. Uzamere" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <debtpayment0101@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 18:19:03 -0700
Subject: RE: Your Payment Details.........

OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
FEDERAL REPUBLICE OF NIGERIA
SENATE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN PAYMENT
GARKI -ABUJA NIGERIA
 
>From the Desk Of:                                                               
SENATOR EHIGIE E. UZAMERE
SENATE CHAIRMAN ON
FOREIGN AND LOCAL DEBT PAYMENTS
ABUJA - NIGERIA
E-MAIL: debtpayment0101@gmail.com
 
Hello
 
                  RE: APPROVAL OF $5.5 MILLION PART PAYMENT
 
I am Senator Ehigie E. Uzamere the chairman of foreign and local debts. I have been instructed by the
office of the President of Nigeria to find out before the end of this month, why the transfer of your
fund have not been credited to your account, after instructions has been passed to all various
Government quarters that all over due payments should be released as a lot of petitions by
beneficiary’s has been received by the office of the president.
 
Following this report, I decided to carry out some investigations which lead to my finding out that
some officials has decided to use this opportunity to milk so many innocent people of their money
instead of having their funds transferred to them and at the same time trying to divert the funds to
another account using the same information of the beneficiary or fake information and different account
to receive the funds. They milk the beneficiary’s of their money to use it for their own selfish act and at
the end they end up not been able to.
 
Some even present them selves as the central bank governor and even the finance minister but still
they will not be able to achieve their greedy act just milking money from the original beneficiary’s. In
this regards, the President of the federation has instructed that we personally look into this
payments and make sure that all payments should be granted a part payment of $5.5million dollars
as the budget for the year has been released and some amount has been mapped out for the
payments.
 
However I will give my assistance to make sure your file is in order for payment as two people came
for the claim of the fund and submitted account saying that you are not well and no longer interested
in the fund which I know is the hand work of this same people in question. But be noted that you must
obtain an Affidavit of claim first.
 
You are hereby advised to get back to this office with the following information for further verification
and clarification as well.
 
1) Your full names and current residence address
2) Your direct phone numbers
3) Your full banking information (bank name, address, account number and routing number with bank
swift code if any)
4) Your photo page of your international passport or driver’s license.
 
Upon the receiving this information’s or response from you formal application will be sent on your
behalf to the office of the president and necessary approvals for this part payment will be released
to you. You can send me an email to (debtpayment0101@gmail.com) will be highly appreciated
to enable your part payment to be released to your account. Be duly informed again as stated above
that you are required to obtain an Affidavit of Claim before we can proceed with the payment.
 
Yours faithfully
 
Senator Ehigie E. Uzamere

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