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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: "Central Bank (CBN)" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mrs.egoh112@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 14:39:40 -0600
Subject: CBN Payment Notiification.

Dear Fund Beneficiary,

Greetings to you and your family. My name is Juliana Egoh, the Special/Personal Assistant to (Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi) the Executive Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). I have a secret information which will be of vital help to you, I cannot keep it further as my conscience reminds me of my duties as one who believes in equity and fair play in life. My boss and some of his colleagues from other ministries who are assigned to transfer some money to you have conspired to divert the funds to another account and the strategy they employed was by demanding several charges from you. All of the demands are illegal just to frustrate you so that you will abandon your payment for them. They are currently working with the finance minister, Attorney General of the Federation and some commercial bank chief executives in order to perfect this evil act. He has counterparts in almost every country in Asia, North America and United Kingdom. As this will then open an avenue for the!
m to tag your payment as an unclai

Note that they will keep frustrating you if you continue dealing with them because they will never do the right thing since the quest for too much worldly gains has blinded their sense of reasoning. I am in charge of credit controller to infuse all those information but I purposely delayed it as my mindset does not accept such scam. I can release this fund to you if I am sure that I will be protected because if not, my life will be in danger !!!. This money was madated to be transferred to their private account on or before 28th of April, 2014. If you are willing to get your total payment direct into your account or through our online banking, call or email me to reconfirm your account particulars and other related information's but if you chooses other legitimate ways let me know aswell and forward your contact details to me immediately upon the receipt of this message.

Please don't expose this top secret to anyone, even to those you are currently communicating with in respect of your payment, both local and international and note that they are all agents working for the CBN Executive Governor, so stop communicating with them henceforth because they have contacts all over the World but so far as am concerned your payment will not be tampered with but please classify this information as a top secret and highly confidential, and it should be kept till the end of our transaction as having it divulged is a great risk to me. If you're not interested do not bother to reply, otherwise your prompt response will do you a lot of good by having the right things done in your payment Fund Release Order Documents which was regularized by unknown crooks. Haven't you ever imagine that after all the series of fees you paid, yet the transaction was still not concluded !!!.. It is a deliberate act to frustrate your effort out of the business. Looking forward !
to your immediate response.

Dr, Mrs. Juliana Egoh
Tlp: +234 9030-252926
Website: www.cenbank.org

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