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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: "Debt Management Office" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <e7757678@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 16:40:21 -0500
Subject: Ref: $12.5 Million Payment:- A NEW DIRECTIVE!!..

Hello,

Anticipating that this mail meets you in good health and sound mind.

The Debt Management Office shall not be held responsible for any failure in your fund settlement, having made several attempts to reconcile your payment discrepancies and ensure that you begin to
receive your long withheld payment in bits of smaller transfers as recently approved by the Federal Government as an aftermath of the meeting concluded with both the United Nations, the US Government and
the European Union.

Having aborted the recent attempt made by the so called Mr. Harry Bunch, who we suspect may have hacked into your email address, stole your password and compromised your privacy from where he may have
gotten every information concerning your payment, your long withheld sum of $12.5 Million (including all you may have spent in the past) is still safe and intact as allocated to you via the residual account of the Federal Government of Nigeria domiciled with the Habib International Bank.

The international community and us are fully aware that the entire era of corruption and scams in the Nigerian government offices were characterized by so many discrepancies and forgery. We discovered that
there are so many forged / fake documents in most payment files of foreign beneficiaries possibly created by those past corrupt officials and no government will go ahead to effect such payments to concerned
beneficiaries without verifying and reconciling these payment claims accurately.

The new order now is that the previous stamp duty requested from all concerned beneficiaries be SUSPENDED. Every concerned beneficiary should be duly communicated to, investigated and if all claim
documents found in your payment file are found genuine, your payment will be effected immediately at a ZERO COST to you because it is your entitlement.

Therefore, if you are the rightful beneficiary of this fund, you are required once again to re-confirm the following personal details for our verification and investigation.

1. Your names in full.
2. Your resident / office address in full.
3. Your direct Telephone number.
4. A scanned/ photocopy of your ID card OR Drivers License OR Passport.

Once we receive these items above, we shall give you a telephone call for oral questioning.

THE NEW PAYMENT DIRECTIVE FROM OUR GOVERNMENT IS THAT ANY FOREIGN BENEFICIARY WHOSE PAYMENT CLAIM IS FOUND GENUINE, WILL RECEIVE HIS OR HER FUNDS AT A ZERO COST.

If you actually know in your heart that this long embattled fund belongs to you TRUTHFULLY, kindly and urgently reply according to instructions herein. If however, you are one of the suspected FAKE
claimants whose names appeared here as a result of dealing with all these fraudulent officials over these years, please kindly do us a favor by not replying to this email.

Waiting for your response or an immediate telephone call to our telephone number below.

Mr. Oladele Afolabi,
Head, Portfolio Management Department,
Debt Management Office, DMO.
NDIC Building (1st Floor),
Plot 447/448 Constitution Avenue,
Central Business District,
P.M.B. 532, Garki Abuja, Nigeria.
Tel: +234 902 445 8361

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