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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: "Ibrahim M. Magu" <info@usa.org>
Reply-To: <alhsuleimancb_nabujang@outlook.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2017 15:31:34 -0500
Subject: Confirm Receipt Urgently

Attn: Sir,

I write to inform you that based on the present change going on in the Nigeria Government. The president elect Muhammadu Buhari have been intimated on the corruption going on in the country concerning civil servants over diverting of funds of foreign contractors/ inheritance funds claimers for their own personal use after obtaining funds falsely from the contractors and etc,by the Resolution panel on foreign and Local contract payment chaired by Ibrahim M. Magu the EFCC CHAIRMAN and the Governor of Central Bank Of Nigeria ,Godwin Emefiele. It may interest you to know that many government officials have been quizzed for their misconduct by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) since the new President came on board.

Based on the above, some of the officials has given light concerning your payment funds and were able to do confessional statement that your funds was among the one's they are ploting to divert to their own account for their own personal use after using your hard earn money to secure the approvals of the funds.on that note the president have asked every ministry that is indebted to any foreign contractor to link them up for proper re approval of their funds on their names before the end of this second quarter payment of the year.

On that note you are advised to contact us for re approval of your funds through Alhaji Suleiman Barau Deputy Governor Foreign Operations Central Bank of Nigeria within 72hrs Email: alhsuleimancb_nabujang@outlook.com ,and if after 72hrs we did not hear from you, your funds will be cancelled and regarded as one of the fraudulent funds emanated from corruption in the system. You are advised to respond to us with your contact numbers, any evidence of claim on your funds within you, Nos of the people that have been dealing with you all these days, documents send to you on the subject matter if any. Be informed that you are advised to stop any further communication with any person or persons who ascribe to him/her self positions of authority they did not rising to, in other to avoid further regrets.

Finally,be it known to you that you will be required to fly down to Nigeria to sign your funds from the bank by your self to avoid any further complaint. But where by you are indisposed to fly down then the bank will provide you with an attorney from the bank to represent you when the time comes because it's a must now to be present before your funds can be effected order by the president in other to regulate the ugly scam that has been going on since in the system. We are expecting to read from you concerning this subject mater. We are sorry for the inconveniences this must have caused you while looking forward
in seeing your message.

Yours Sincerely,
Ibrahim M. Magu.
CHAIRMAN RESOLUTION PANEL ON CONTRACT PAYMENT)
ABUJA-NIGERIA


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