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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: DIPLOMATIC FOREIGN DEBT RECONCILLIATION PANEL DAVID MAX <davidmax.foreigndebt@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2016 12:54:42 +0000
Subject: RE:RE: RE:REPLY


Dear: Esteemed Beneficiary

Following the Federal Government Mandate of 2016 over Foreign Payment and
Debt, our office has finally granted a final approval over your company’s
payment. We have also attached this along to the PRESIDENT with a payment
approval notice RE-22XXY36.

Meanwhile, your Local Representatives here in Nigeria have submitted your
bank details to us where this fund is to be transferred. As a matter of
urgency and appropriateness, do crosscheck this submitted bank details of
yours as forwarded by your Local Representative to ensure accuracy. The
account is hereby stated below.

CITIbank N.A NEW YORK 1005,
ABA #: 04121855677
Swift code: CTTIUS33
ACCOUNT #: 03-11153-1
We also advised that you should refer me to the below release numbers.

RELEASE CODE: =
CBN/CBN/XXCY/WK3/008/16
SEQUENCE NUMBER = NNCB/B12/0XX/16
REFERENCE =
CBN/0080/02/16
TRANSACTION NUMBER = CBN/R0/00XX/16
SWIFT NUMBER =
CBN/FGN/NXXWFT/3256
FOREX ALLOCATION NO: =
FGN/CBN/360XYX/2010/XXZ

Once more expedite action towards this contact; the release of your
payment has been handed over to my office. We at the same time apologize
for the continuous delay over the final approval and release of your
payment.

This was as a result of irregularities and gross miss-crediting funds in
the past by Government Agents. Moreover, we Thank you very much for your
kind endurance so far.

Yours Faithfully,
Dr. David Max

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