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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: "HAMED IDRIS" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <hamddrs@yahoo.es>
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 15:09:47 -0700
Subject: RE: URGENT NOTIFICATION TO YOUR PAYMENT,

>From The Desk of Mr. Hamed Idris
The Chief Accountant General
Federal Republic of Nigeria.
 
Attention $10.5M Fund Beneficiary.
 
Sir,
 
Your payment file worth the total sum of Ten Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars (US$10,500,000.00) was brought to my desk this morning for change of beneficiary name which I have to take my time to look into your payment file to know why your overdue payment should be transfer to JUPITER ARANZA DESPHY JR. and I found out in your file that several fees was paid by you. My question is why this sudden change of beneficiary name, are you aware of this new development to transfer your funds into this bank account below.
 
Bank Name: WELLS FARGO BANK
Bank Address: 8190 WEST SAHARA AVENUE, LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, 89117, USA
Account Name: AEGIS CAPITAL ENTERPRISE
Account Signatory: JUPITER ARANZA DESPHY JR.
Account Number: 1017680768
Routing Number: 121000248
SWIFT Code: WFBIUS6S
Bank Officer: SHIBA SHAHMIRZADI
Title of Bank Officer: BRANCH MANAGER
Telephone Number: 702-765-1803
Facsimile Number: 702-765-1810
 
I am not suppose to release this bank details to you but to let you know how truthful i and my office is. I am giving you the new bank account details submitted to my office for the transfer of your fund and you can call the bank to confirm if this bank account is in existence and the owner of the account and i am ready to give you more details of this account for your verification and once you confirm that i should go ahead and make the transfer into the above bank account, your $10.5Million will be transfer to the bank account within 24hours from now.
 
We have been mandated by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and United Nation (UN) through the office of the President Federal Republic of Nigeria General Muhammadu Buhari to pay all Federal Government of Nigeria outstanding debt to all foreign beneficiaries before the end of this second quarter payment of the year 2015 which is fast approaching to an end and waive aside all unpaid debt and summit our payment report to the United Nation before the end of this month.
 
Base on this you are advice to get back to us immediately as you read this message and advice us if we should go ahead and complete the transfer of the processed sum of Ten Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars ($10,500,000.00) into the above listed bank account or not, hence we do not have much time to delay in concluding the transfer of your fund, so do not hesitate to call me as you read this message.
 
I am contacting you from my private email address as a result of the urgency and confidential needed in this matter but in my next reply i wll contact you direct from my official email address base on your quick response to this message.
 
Thanks for your understanding and we look forward to hear from you.
Yours Faithfully,
 
Mr. Hamed Idris
The Chief Accountant General
Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Tel: +234-814-857-1037

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