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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: "FAAC OFFICE (Dr. Ben Ofili)" <dr.ben_ofili@senate.com>
Reply-To: dr.benhos.ofili@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 03:26:15 +0700 (ICT)
Subject: Re: 2013/2014 ANNUAL FOREIGN PAYMENT FILE REVIEW:




Attn: This is to officially inform you that during our 2013/2014 Annual
foreign Payment review your payment information was among the payment file
registered and submitted as Unclaimed to the House of Senate. So the
Senate Committee on foreign debt reconciliation had authorized me to
communicate with you in regards to your payment File value at $10.7M.
Please see below:


PLEASE READ IT CRITICALLY AND GET BACK TO US ASAP.



RE: INSTRUCTION TO RELEASE YOUR OVERDUE PAYMENT:


Your Unclaimed Payment file valued at $10.7M was re-approved by FG through
House of Senate on foreign debt reconciliation. On the same file that was
presented, There was an attached information of Mr. E. Jackman. Who
presented below Banking Information to our office as your family
representative.



Below is the Banking information he presented for us to wire the
money into:


BANK OF AMERICA
16320 NW 57TH AVE. HIALEAH FL, 33014.
BANK TEL/FAX: (305) 557- 5392.
ACCOUNT HOLDER'S: MR. EDWARD JACKMAN
ACCOUNT NUMBER: 898041316985.
ROUTING NUMBER/SWIFT CODE: 025008593/ BOFAUS3N


Please, do reconfirm to this office, as a matter of urgency if this Man is
from you so that the Presidency will not hold our committee responsible
for paying into the wrong account name. Please your urgent call or
immediate mail communication will highly appreciated.

E-mail: dr.bensenate@yahoo.co.uk


Best regards,


Yours Sincerely,
Dr. Ben Ofili (PhD).
Senate Chairman on Foreign Overdue Payment.
Tel: +234 8075050090
E-mail: dr.bensenate@yahoo.co.uk

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