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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: (sent from abused email account)
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 10:34:00 +0100
Subject: Your approval mandate

Good-day Beneficiary,


I am the Chief Payment officer to our New Elected President on foreign
payments. I am in the process of concluding payment to all the duly
approved foreign contractors who have completed the contract awarded to
them, I have a total of $147.5 million in excess of what the president
approved which is in the bank and i have discussed the Bank Manager to
transfer out only $47.5 for our personal use and return the balance
$100million to the FGN consolidated Revenue account.

On this note we have decided to include your names among the contractors
list to enable us transfer the total amount of $ 47.5 million into your
account for subsequent disbursement. since we as civil servants, we are
prohibited by the Code of Conduct Bureau (Civil Service Laws) from opening
and/or operating foreign accounts in our names. we have agreed to offer 35%
of the transferred sum, 5% shall be set aside for any incidental expenses
during the course of this transaction and 60% for us. Please you must
accord this transaction with utmost confidentiality and secrecy.


Kindly send the following details for our working.


1) Your full name.
2) Phone, fax and mobile
3) Company name, position and address
4) Profession, age and marital status.
5) Copy of int'l passport any valid ID card.


Note: Transfer to your account will be completed within 7 business days.
please reply to this email (DR.ADAM_MIKE@dr.com) urgently with the needed
details and i will email you my data page for my true identification.


YOURS SINCERELY
DR. ADAMS M.
CHIEF PAYMENT OFFICER ON FOREIGN CONTRACTS.

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