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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: "Amb. Mark Lyall Grant" <mrchristianandrew3@gmail.com>
Reply-To: drmarklgrant@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 00:12:07 +0100
Subject: Re:Your fund

>From Amb. Mark Lyall Grant


We have been directed to contact you by his Excellency the
president,federal republic of Nigeria, to discuss possible modalities that
will be instituted in order to offset/settle your contractual entitlement
which payment has been approved several times without your money being
remitted to your accounts.

We have been well briefed by ministries/ pastorals that were directly and
indirectly involved in the processing and settlement of your contractual
entitlements, the reason behind your inability to actually secure the
releasing of your contractual entitlements to your account is because of
the existence of unknown persons who has
continually posed as authentic CBN and government officials thereby making
it virtually impossible for you to secure the release of your contractual
entitlements.

The president of the federal republic of Nigeria, in his genuine effort to
eliminate corruption at the highest level during his visit to London in the
beginning of this year had an agreement with the prime minister and also
some financial institution to assist the Federal republic of Nigeria in
scrutinizing the payment of all her
external contractors whose debts runs into millions of dollars during the
military regime of their past rulers. It was during this meeting we
discovered that several banks in Europe has been used to deceive and
defraud unsuspecting contractors that their money has been sent to them.

It was after his visit that this body (Debt Settlement center) was
constituted to take up the immediate reconciliation, verifications/
settlement of all categories of debt owed to foreign contractors by the
federal government of Nigeria. Funds has been made available for this very
purpose and this body has just received further boost up to the tune of
us$700.000.000.00.from money recovered by the federal government of Nigeria
from the Abacha's loot which was made possible by the intervention of the
Prime mister and other E.U member states.

Your name and that of 10 other contractors from the United States of
America, Malaysia, Germany, Austria, Asia and the France has just been sent
to us during this present scheme so that we can contact you and discuss new
modalities of payment which the federal government of Nigeria has worked
out.

Send your details, telephone and contact address so that we can move on
with the processing. See details required below :


Personal Information:
1) Full Name:
2) Address
3) Contact Phone:
4) Age: Civil Status:
5) Occupation:

Records for authentications to ensure a swift action to be taken in line
with the releasing of your contractual sum with immediate effect.

Sincerely.
Amb. Mark Lyall Grant
Permanent Representative of the United Nations

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