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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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Fraud email example:

From: "EFCC" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <e.f.c.c@ananzi.co.za>
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2014 10:50:23 -0500
Subject: AUTHORISED TRANSFER OF US$38.4M TO YOUR BANK ACCOUNT

Attention:

My name is Mr Ibrahim Lamorde, executive chairman of the economic and financial crimes commission of Nigeria. I expect the contents of my letter to you should be treated as a classified information and its knowledge and origin should be kept to yourself after reading through it for security purpose. I have a business proposal which would be of immense benefit to both of us, provided you accord it the importance it deserves.

Recently, I and a member of the ministry of finance and economic development were put in charge of an ad-hoc committee to oversee the disbursement of the sum of US $192,000,000 to five(5) fund beneficiaries for contracts executed with the Nigerian Government in 2009 and this sums are now ready for due disbursement to the intended beneficiaries via the CBN where this funds were deposited pending when we submit these names.

Originally, the number of contractors to be paid, amounted to just four(4) but we were the ones who penciled an extra number in for our own interest(which you may now consider selfish!), the world is not an honest place either and we have got families to take care of. We sincerely seek your consent to present you as that extra fund beneficiary to be paid part of this funds of which if agreed to, the sum to be forwarded to your bank account will amount to US$38,400,000.00 via official protocol.

If you are willing to assist on this transaction, do inform me accordingly via the email contained herein: mribrahimlamorde217@gmail.com, so that i could explain the modalities required in claiming the above mentioned fund sum for imminent disbursement to your home bank account. If on the other hand you think this is unethical, kindly disregard this letter and move on. Thank you for reading through.

Sincerely,
Mr Ibrahim Lamorde,
Chairman,
EFCC.

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