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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: "Lamido Sanusi Lamido" <lamidoS_lamido@gmx.com>
Date: Sun, 18 May 2014 17:13:43 -0300
Subject: Your Ref

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Dear Friend,

I am Lamido Sanusi Lamido, the embattled governor of the Central Bank of
Nigeria. I have been serving as CBN governor since 2009 and my tenure was
due to elapse in June 2014. Albeit, I was unlawfully suspended from acting
in my capacity on 20th Feb 2014 by the President of my country (Dr. Goodluck
Jonathan); a move that has been largely criticized by the Senate House,
Federal House of Reps, State Legislators and international observers around
the world. To learn more about my story, please visit:
http://elombah.com/index.php/articles-mainmenu/21127-nigeria-s-central-bank-governor-s-suspension-the-boomerang-effect

Few weeks before my suspension, I had raised an alarm on the high level of
corruption going on in the nation's biggest oil corporation (NNPC) and
making public that the NNPC has failed to remit $20 billion (USD) to the
federation account. These revealed truths were done with good intentions but
it was an action the president considered to be an attempt to ridicule his
government which is a direct beneficiary to the NNPC. As I write to you,
couple of attempts have been made on my life, my traveling documents have
been seized by the security agency loyal to the president to make it
impossible for me to leave the country; the government will do everything to
stop me from revealing more truths. This is why I seek to know you and help
me move some of my funds / investments within our neighbouring countries to
your country under your care and management; I don't know how long this
battle is going to last but I've got to use every little chance I have to
relocate some of my savings far away from my country out of the reach from
the present government. They have succeded in freezing some of the accounts
i have in five different banks in my country and now they are making every
efforts to see that they trace some of the accounts i have in other Africa
neighbouring countries like Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire.

I presently have about $8.3million (USD) in BGFI bank Cote d'Ivoire that I
want to quickly transfer the ownership to you after knowing you better
before the government trace it and block it. All that I need to commence
immediate redirection of the funds to you is; (1) Your full names (2)
Contact address (3) Phone number(4) Occupation (5) Age. With these
informations, i can prepare a business partnership letter and a letter of
authority which you can use to contact the bank for the relocation of the
money from the bank in Cote d'Ivoire to Europe or America or Asia depending
where your bank account is domiciled provided it is not Africa. Cote
d'Ivoire is our neighbouring country and the account can easily be traced
which i would not want as 5 of my local bank accounts have since been
freezed. I am presently under thorough watch and investigation by the
government since the embattled issue is still at the appeal court. Therefore
i do not need any telephone conversation because my calls are being
monitored by SSS.

On receipt of your positive response and knowing much about you, i will
prepare a letter of authority which i shall send copy to you and to the
bank. Thereafter, the bank will contact you for the relocation of the fund i
deposited with them. I'll furnish you with further information upon your
swift response.

Regards,
Lamido Sanusi Lamido



























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