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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: "FIRST BANK OF NIGERIA PLC" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <alfredopeters600@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 01:24:15 +0100
Subject: NOTIFICATION FOR RELEASE OF YOUR FUND

FIRST BANK OF NIGERIA PLC
HEAD OFFICE SAMUEL ASABIA
HOUSE, 35 MARINA LAGOS NIGERIA.

Attention: Sir/Madam,

NOTIFICATION FOR RELEASE OF YOUR FUND

This letter is written to you in order to change your life from today. I am Rev. Afredo Peter. the new director, international remittance department of this bank, my boss Mr Jacob M Ajekigbe, the MD/ CEO of this bank is now on compulsory leave and all power has been vested on me to make all international payment....Furthermore due to allegations of corrupt practice against other Nigeria Banks, the Federal Government of Nigeria has appointed this bank to effect all foreign overdue payment. Be informed that the Federal Government have Approved the release of US$8.5M which have been in this bank for many years UNCLAIMED. Our Boss in collaboration with the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria have refuse to tell you the truth on how to claim your fund, this is because they has been using the interest accumulated from your fund every year to enrich themselves without your knowledge. I want to help you PULL OUT this fund to your Bank account today using the easiest and quickest method which
has not been known to yo

A domiciliary account is a secure account which we will open for you in our Bank and Credit your payment of US$8.5M for further credit into your account, the essence of this Domiciliary account is to secure and protect your payment from being diverted by fraudulent people or making payment to a foreign account which do not belong to you, the greatest advantage is that you can instruct us to credit your nominated account bit by bit with small amount thereby saving yourself from the embarrassment of Financial Authority in your country who monitor large transfer due to current trend of terrorist. Another beauty of the domiciliary account is that you can retain the balance left in your account in our Bank and can also instruct us to pay out money to any bank of your choice in the world, or issue you an ATM Card which you can use in any part of the world when in a business trip.

I hope you now understand the advantages of a Domiciliary account and why you need this account to receive your payment of US$8.5M now in our Bank. You are advice to forward as a matter of urgent.

(1) YOUR FULL NAME:
(2) FULL ADDRESS OF YOUR CITY, STATE AND COUNTRY:
(3) PHONE, FAX AND MOBILE:
(4) COMPANY NAME, POSITION AND ADDRESS:
(5) PROFESSION, AGE AND MARITAL STATUS:
(6) A COPY OF YOUR INT'L PASSPORT/DRIVERS LICENSE.

As we have started the process of opening the account for you. All that is require of you is to Activate the newly opened Domiciliary Account with a minimum of $395 USD in line with Provisions of Section 2 Sub Section (iia) of Banks and Financial Act of 2001 which state that all Non Resident Account otherwise known as Domiciliary must be activated to make the account operational, while Sub Section (iib) do NOT permit any Bank official from making deduction from the payment to be deposited in the domiciliary account, which is US$8.5M in your own case.

I await your urgent response to enable us commence.

Yours faithfully,

Mr. Afredo Peter.
Director International Remittance,
First Bank of Nigeria Plc.

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