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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: MR JONAH OGUNNIYI OTUNLA <sundayedem72@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: office@accountantgeneral.org
Date: 24 Oct 2014 12:41:34 -0000
Subject: NOTIFICATION OF PAYMENT OF YOUR CONTRACT /INHERITANCE SUM INTO YOUR BANK ACCOUNT


>From the desk of:
Mr. Jonah Ogunniyi Otunla
Accountant General Of The Federation
The Director, Central Computer Auditing /Monitoring Unit

Attn: HONOURABLE CONTRACTOR / INHERITANCE,

NOTIFICATION OF PAYMENT OF YOUR CONTRACT /INHERITANCE SUM INTO YOUR BANK ACCOUNT

The presidency in the spirit of transparency and accountability hereby come up to the aid of foreign Contractor’s/inheritor’s whose payment has been on pending to meet up to a stipulated obligation based on the financial constitution of Nigeria as a result of your suffering in the past to procure your contract/inheritance payment. The president of the federal republic of Nigeria President Goodluck Jonathan with the members of the senate have taking an absolute measure to ensure that your long overdue payment is released within three banking working days.

The federal government of Nigeria has instruct this office of Accountant General of The Federation of the federal republic of Nigeria to carry your transfer immediately, due to the fraudulent acts being operated by some of our un patriot banking officials with some staff of the government parastaters,you are hereby advice to send your banking details with your contacts details and a copy of your identification card to the fax number stated below for immediate processing of your transfer. Fax number: +1 415-997-0981. For security reason, make sure you give us a telephone call immediately upon the receipt of this message on this direct telephone number +23481-2077-5316 to tell us the transfer code AGFCBN34, so that we can carry out your transfer without any further delay.

Following the payment /wire-transfer instructions received from the office of the presidency , this is to inform you that this office is in-charge of your payment for the immediate payment/wire-transfer of the approved payment so that we can forward your details to our correspondent bank to carry out the final transfer into your bank account.

We thank you for believing in us as our creative and innovative services are rendered by experts, which have kept us afloat over the years we remain one of the best financial institutions in the world and our services rendered are unquestionable as we incorporate into being the highly trained professionals .

counting on your co-operation to enable us serve you better .

Your faithfully,

MR JONAH OGUNNIYI OTUNLA
Director, Central Computer Auditing /Monitoring Unit
Office of the Account General of the Federation.

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