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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: Emefor Frank <lamiduhas30@gmail.com>
Reply-To: frank-presidency@consultant.com
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2016 15:59:19 +0100
Subject: HELLO

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

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

Sequel to the complaint 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 United Nations and 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. This committee is made up of
(CONSULTANTS) such as, top government functionaries, bank executives and
security operatives, to look into the delay in transfer of all long
approved international funds transfers, and we are serving as consultants
to the United Nations, the World Bank and the Nigerian government, with
strict government supervision.
We have looked into your records and have found out that, the reason why
your funds is been delayed, is due to the fact that you have a lot of
irregularities(mix up) in your payment file, as the information’s 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 money
(Approved funds) should be transferred to Mr. James Smith of Canada, whom
your representative said is your next of KIN, he has 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.

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
1, if you are truly dead or alive.
2, 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
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 you 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 Nigerian
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.

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

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