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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: "Rev Fr John Chris" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <revjohnchris22@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2016 17:05:12 -0400
Subject: Call Me Once You Received This Message

>From The Desk of
Rev. John Chris
Director Telegraphic Wire Transfer/ATM. Department,
Central Bank of Nigeria
Tel: +234-8182552525.

Re: Attention; The Fund Beneficiary,
Dear:

I am writing this message to you from my private email because it is confidential, to commence the transfer of your overdue payment to you. My name is Rev John Chris, I am the Director Foreign Payment Department Central Bank of Nigeria. I am delighted to contact you directly for open confession and for you to know the truth of the matter and the reason why you have not received your overdue contract inheritance approved sum of Twelve Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars Only ($12.5M) up to this time.

The truth is that your local partner or representative who claimed to represent you into this contract inheritance payment came to my office some time ago and made an agreement with me to assist him and transfer your $12.5M to you and he promesed to pay me a compensation sum of $250,000 as soon as you confirm your funds into your account.

The agreement was signed between both of us without legalizing it in the court and after I commenced on the processing of the fund transfer in the Central Transfer Swift Board ready for final transfer into your account, your local partner decided to play over my intelligence by deciding to abandon me and use a Cash Diplomatic System of payment through this Bank to deliver your payment to you in your country without my consent not knowing that the Cash Diplomatic System Payment office Is under my department and when I found out I stopped all the movement of the payment and he went at my back to use ATM System of Payment to pay you without knowing that it is under my department and I stopped it again.

Last week, your local representative still came back to my office to plead with me for a fresh agreement to transfer the fund into your account again and promise not to disappoint me again and he submitted the below bank account details on your behalf for the transfer of your fund:

Bank Name; Citi Bank
Bank Add: 201 W. 125th Street.,New York,N.Y.10027.
Bank Telephone # 212-932-1319.
Account Number; 497-100-0765. / 497-191-6263
Routing Number; 021000089.
Swift Code: ctbxx2905?
Account Beneficiary's Name; Pamelia R. King.

When I looked into this account details I observed that the name of the account holder is different from your own name and I decided to contact you directly to know if you are the true beneficiary of this account and also let you know the simple reason why you have not received your payment up to this time.

Please kindly go through the above bank details and confirm to me if the account is your correct bank account details or not and get back to me immediately to avoid paying to the wrong account because I am an honest Man and i believe that good name is better than Riches, and my bible made me to know that after here on earth there is a place for us in Heaving. the Address and Telephone Number of the bank is here, so you can call the bank to verify the Existence of the Account and the Beneficiary's Name; Pamelia R. King.

Do reply this mail and include your direct telephone number where you can be reached any time and your bank details where you want your fund to be transferred to, and do not hesitate to call me on my direct telephone number +234-8182552525as you read this message for more details that i cannot disclose to you in the email for fund security reason.

With Regards,

Rev. Fr John Chris;
Director Telegraphic Wire Transfer/ATM. Department,
Central Bank of Nigeria
Tel: +234-8182552525.

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