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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: "MRS. JULIANA EGOH" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <dregohcbn1@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 05:27:51 +0200
Subject: CBN Payment Notification

Dear Fund Beneficiary,
 
 
 
I am Dr, Mrs. Juliana Egoh, the Special/Personal Assistant to (Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi) the Executive Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). I have urgent secret information for you 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. My boss and some of his colleagues from other ministries who are assigned with the duty of transferring some money to you have conspired together to divert your fund to another account and the strategy they employed was by demanding several charges from you, all the demands are illegal just to frustrate you to 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 like United Kingdom, United States, Spain, Holland, Taiwan, Hong Kong,
Indonesia and India etc. As this will then open an avenue for them to tag your payment as an unclaimed debt and will have it transferred to their own coded account overseas.
 
 
 
As a matter of fact, (Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi) the Executive Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and his colleagues instructed me to change your payment details with the one they have just nominated for immediate transfer but i refused, note that they will frustrate you for ever 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, am in charge of credit comptroller to infuse all those information but i am purposely delaying 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 if not my life will be in danger? This money will be transferred to their private account on or before 28th of May, 2014. If you are willing to get your total payment direct into your account or through 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.
 
 
 
At the receipt of this letter kindly call me or you forward your confidential cell phone number to me but don't expose this top secret please, 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 (Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi) so stop communicating with them henceforth or you will remain frustrated in their cage, they have contacts all over the World but so far as am concerned your payment will not be tampered with, but please Kindly consider this secret information as a top secret and highly privileged and it should be kept till the end of time as having it divulged is a great risk on my side, 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.
 
 
You should have asked why after all the series of fees you paid yet the transaction was still not concluded, is a deliberate act to frustrate your effort out of the business. Looking forward to your immediate response. For further clarifications, do not hesitate to contact my office.
 
 
 
Yours faithfully.
 
 
 
Dr, Mrs. Juliana Egoh
Tlp: +234 9030-252926
Website: www.cenbank.org

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