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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: "REV MIKE IBEH" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <unionbankplcz05@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 05:21:38 -0700
Subject: call me now

Re - Change of Bank Account Details.

I want to bring to your notice that i have today received a Notice for
a Change of Fund Ownership/ Account application from Mr. Pedro
Nunez. Mr Pedro asked us to deposit your fund to this new account
stated below.

Commerce Bank
Beneficiary name: Pedro Nunez
Routing number: 10173619
Account number: 029651321
Swift code: CBKCUS44

He said that you have a new contract in Kansas City, Missouri and has
ran out of funds hence you want us to immediately deposit your
approved compensation fund to the new account above. I am therefore
writing to find out if you are the one that authorized this new
change of account .
Meanwhile, it has also come to my notice that your name/payment has
Never been Gazetted on the official Government website as an
approved payment. This explains the reason why all your efforts to
get this Fund has proved abortive.

The NNDSD was established on 7th April, 2017 to centrally coordinate
the management of debt owed foreign contractors, which was hitherto
being done by a myriad of establishments in an uncoordinated fashion.
This diffused public debt management strategy led to inefficiencies
and also created fundamental problems, including the following:

1:Operational inefficiency and poor coordination;

2:Inadequate debt data recording system and poor information flow
across agencies with consequent inaccurate and incomplete debt
records;

3:Extreme difficulty in the verification of creditors’ claims due to
conflicting figures from the various bodies handling the debt
management function;

4:Complicated and inefficient debt service arrangements, which created
protracted payment procedure and often led to penalties that added to
the nation’s debt stock;

5:Inadequate manpower and poor incentive systems for the affected
personnel, which affected outputs and performance;

6:Lack of consistent well-defined debt management strategies which led
to bureaucratic challenges that gave opportunity to fraudulent
officials to cheat, deceive and scam unsuspecting fund beneficiaries.

The consideration of these myriad problems led government to support
the establishment of a relatively autonomous public debt management
department, which resulted in the formation of the NNDSD in April,
2016. The need for the creation of a separate public debt management
department was therefore aimed at addressing some of the issues raised
above.

Respond back to me immediately you receive this Memo to confirm if
you are the one that authorized your fund to be sent to the new
back account in Kansas City, Missouri, USA.

I await your urgent response.
Yours faithfully,
Rev Mike Ibeh
union bank
CALL ME ON MY PHONE AS SOON AS YOU RECEIVE THIS MESSAGE: +234-8083504531

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