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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: helen ubuka <helenubuka123@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 12:53:53 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: PAYMENT TRANSFER WITH SECRET DISKETTE ONLINE ONLY WAY OUT FOR
YOUR FUND TRANSFER

Dear.Friend,
I do not know how you will take this letter but i am doing this based on my Christian faith and what tomorrow will be.I am (Mrs) Helen Ubuka,the office assistant to the Central Bank Governor.I am not telling you this to impress you or to gain favor from you,rather i am doing this to save you from further damage and pains.I have done this to two people already,though they betrayed me at the end. Reasons why I used Private mail is because is secret me and you, I don't want the CBN Governor to know or my Government, is secret okay,

Your account that was Block from my wick Governor because they are using some of your funds to give out loan and do their own Business every month they do get profit from your funds. I look at this it pains me that is reason why i decided to contact you secret if you like co-operate with me and following my instruction,I have secret login and open cbn account and removed some funds and loaded your funds into the software diskette payment this should be part of your funds inside the diskette. If you are interested do let me know for more information from me. secret is the key of this payment.
Before I proceed,you must promise me first that nobody will know of this and after you are satisfied with my job,you can help me in whatever way your spirit directs you for my share.

This is very secret ,I overheard the New Governor OF cbn saying that they will make you tired and abandoned your Inheritance funds for them to later divert to joint account using part of it doing there own business.
Please do not pay anything to them again regarding the release of your fund because the President of Nigeria and the members of his Federal Executive Council and United Nations have endorsed all your funds clearance documents and your account is already activated which you can access at any time. through your computer with the diskette online which I will send to you by courier with all the transfer codes Manuel Directions.

It is just that some of our bank executives are very greedy and they have created avenues to steal your money even when they know that the situation is very critical. Myself and another Christian colleague in the office can assist you only if you can agree with our instructions and The proposal is that you should not allow anybody know of this as that will land us into serious trouble and may even take our lives.

Now we have perfectly pulled out the Computer software Diskette Gazette that contains your payment information with the access code transfer and how you can log on and transfer the money from our CBN account to your bank account online through your computer.

I will send it to you immediately.PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE our job is on the line.I am only 34 years married with two kids ( A Boy and A Girl) and I don't want to ruin my future or die at this early age. I do not make calls on transactions like this due to the sensitive nature of this transaction and my position with the CBN Everything should by my private email for now.

If this arrangement is OK by you please reply now and I will send the diskette to you through TNT Courier and all these nonsense will stop and you will be happily transfer your fund into your account by yourself which I shall give you more direction booklet Manuel how you will login with the code through your computer and start transferring your money with your computer is very easy. and noted cbn governor will not know about it and my government.as soon you made all the transfer bit by bit to all your account, I will deletes all the information's from here system here so nobody will find out.


I can't do the transfer here because of the secret, If I do i here t they will find out and block your funds which I don't want it to happen to you, you will do it by yourself because transfer Manual and the direction booklet and the code will be coming with the parcel Courier I will package it secretly so that my airport customs agent will not know the contents. I will declare it AND YELLOW TAG IT AS PERSONAL TO YOU,Only what we need to spent tag express home delivering to your house that is all. I will do other things here activation and procure all the code and makes it legal back up all I will do it before shipping to you to start your online diskette transfer.as soon you put in the diskette into your computer the website will come out and you will log on your user name and your password everything has been programmed secret by me. THE USER NAME AND PASSWORD I will give to you when I read your mail all will be into the package, do confirm your address and your phone number and your Id card. secret we do OK. no authority will know about this. transfer start bit by bit transfer from $200,000 .00 dollars per day.the funds programmed online diskette is Five Million Dollars only. my share will be give to after all fifty transfer.

Get back urgently.

Regards.

(Mrs) Helen Ubuka
(Office assistant to the Central Bank Governor)

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