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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: farida farida <lamidu999@gmail.com>
Reply-To: ffrida022@outlook.com
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 11:16:06 +0100
Subject: HELLO

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From: Mrs. Farida Mohammed


Dear Elected,

CAN I TRUST YOU??????
I bring peace and love to you from God and our lord Jesus Christ. It
is by the grace of God that I received Christ after i got converted
from Islamic religion to Christianity, Having known the truth; I had
no choice than to do what is lawful and right in the sight of God for
eternal life and in the sight of man for witness of God mercy and
glory upon my life.

I am Mrs. Farida Mohammed,my friends called my farida farida back in
school days,i am the wife of Late Mr. Ali Mohammed from Malaysia, My
husband worked with the Central Bank Of Malaysia for ten years before
he died .We were married for twenty-seven years without a child. My
Husband died after a brief illness that lasted for only four days.
Before his death we were both Muslims ,but now i got converted to
Christianity and now born again Christians,as it was just the
christian church members that comes to pray for me since i have been
in hospital . Since my husbands death ,I decided not to re-marry or
get a child outside my matrimonial home which the Bible is against.
When my late husband was alive he deposited the sum of $16.4M(USD)
(Sixteen Million four Hundred Thousand USA dollars) with a commercial
Bank in Africa.

Presently, this money is still with the bank and the management just
wrote me as the next of kin to come forward to sign for the release of
this fund only know to me and my late husband or rather issue an
authorization to somebody to receive it on my behalf if I cannot come
over due to the governments order to evacuate all dormant accounts
with commercial banks.

Unfortunately, I'm in a hospital in where I have been undergoing
treatment for esophageal cancer. I have lost my ability to talk well
and my doctors have told me that I have only few months to live. It is
my last wish to see this money distributed to any charitable
organizations anywhere in the World. Because relatives and friends
have plundered so much of my wealth since my illness, I cannot live
with the agony of entrusting this huge responsibility to any of them.

Please will you utilize this money the way I am going to instruct
herein ?. I want you to take 35% of the total money for your personal
use. And 5% shall stand to settle any other expenses that may be
incurred in the course of executing the transaction, while the
remaining 60% of the money will go to charity people in the street
without home, helping the orphanage and less-privileged once.

Please i don't need any telephone communication in this regard because
of my soundless voice and presence of my husband's relatives around me
always. So please kindly send me only E-mail ,because I don't want my
husband's relatives to know about this money,as they have already sold
all my late husbands properties and stolen all our loose cash,With God
all things are possible.

As soon as I receive your response I shall give you the contact of my
late husband Attorney who is in Africa ,he is a Muslim,but a nice
person,as he will be the one to assist you in laying claims for this
money. Your prompt reply will be appreciated. Thank you.

Yours in Christ,
Farida.







FROM THE DESK OF: Mr. Emefor Frank
Head Audit and Investigation Department
International Funds Transfer Monitoring Unit.
Office of the presidency
10th Floor Alafin Building, Wuse Zone 2
Abuja.
TEL: +234-7037950571, FAX: 234-1-882565-9

Dear Sir/Ma,

RE: CHANGE OF NAME/BENEFICIARY FOR YOUR,INHERITANCE FUNDS TRANSFER

Sequel to the complaints from funds beneficiaries over the delay in getting
their funds transferred to their nominated bank accounts in their home
countries, the World Bank in conjunction with the Nigerian government,
through the office of the presidency, have set up this committee, to clear
and effect transfer of all approved funds transfer been delayed in banks,
all over the world to their rightful beneficiaries. This committee is made
up of consultants such as, top government functionaries and bank
executives selected from different commercial banks, to look into the delay
in the transfer of all long approved international funds transfers that
are been delayed , we are serving as consultants to the United Nations, the
World Bank and the Nigerian government, with strict supervision by the
world bank.

We have looked into your records and seen that you are the rightful owner
of the funds and have also found out that, the reason why your approved
funds is been delayed, is due to the fact that you have a lot of
irregularities(mix up) in your funds transfer application file, as the
information supplied by you and your representative are not correct and
does not correspond.

Also from what we have in your file, your representative have also, sent in
a counter application, saying that you are dead and that your Approved
funds, should be transferred to Mr. James Smith of Canada, whom your
representative said is your next of KIN, they have also sent in a bank
account, with the national bank of Canada belonging to James Smith (your
supposed next of kin) for the final transfer of the said funds to Canada
and not to you and not to your country.

Your representatives, Claimed that you are dead and that your money should
be re-approved and transferred to Mr. James Smith of Canada, whom they said
is your next of KIN. Hence, this e-mail, is to reconfirm that
claim/application before we proceed with the paper work for the transfer of
the said funds to Canada.

1, If you are truly dead or alive.
2, If you are alive,to verify if you actually instructed your
representatives, to re-approve and
transfer your long approved funds to Mr. James Smith of Canada.

3, If Mr. James Smith, is truly your next of KIN

If you are alive and not dead as they have claimed,then please reconfirm
the following information as soon as possible and call our help telephone
line

1,Your full names........................................................

2,Address/Country of
Origin.....................................................................

3,Total amount due to be transferred to you In word(...............)Amount
in Letter...................................

4,Fund transfer Approvals notification number(if you don't have this, then
let us know,so we can contact the payee banker for that)this information
will enable us update our records and for verifications purposes,so that we
can clear you for payment within the shortest possible time

You have three days to get back to us, if you are still alive and also call
our help line +234-7037950571
to stop, Mr. James Smith or we shall transfer the funds to Canada, we are
using this medium to verify and be very sure that you are truly dead before
approving the transfer to Canada, as we have a lot of fake claims in our
record, and need to be very careful not to transfer funds to wrong people
claiming such.

We advice that if you are alive,you must stop any further communication
with any other person, persons or office concerning the transfer of your
funds and attention to this office for immediate transfer of your funds to
your bank account, if you are still alive, as we have had cases of people
using this means to steal other peoples funds with the help of fraudulent
lawyer, bank officials and fraudulent government officials.


Please note that, this exercise ,is meant to clean up the image of Nigeria
and Africa in general, as our job is been monitored by the Nigerian
government, the united nations and the world bank, so we are working hard
to achieve a good result by serving you
well.


Yours in office,
Emefor Frank
Head Audit and Investigation Department
International Funds Transfer Monitoring Unit
Office of the presidency
Wuse Abuja

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