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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: His Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR@server.vatamdownload.com,
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Reply-To: muhamadu2019@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 06:37:43 +0430
Subject: RE: YOUR OVERDUE PAYMENT.

Dear Beneficiary,


This is Mr. Muhammadu Buhari, The President Federal Republic of Nigeria also the commander-in-chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces. I took the staff of office as the President on the 29th May 2015 and I have been trying my possible best to see that all out standing debt owed by the Nigerian Government during the Military administration and the passed civilian Government to our foreign contractors/inheritors is been paid out with to the various genuinely beneficiaries.



Now this is your right time to grab your own contract/inheritance payment funds and I only declared to pay the total sum of $10.5 (Ten Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars only) to an every each of the benefactors and I all so designed a very perfect means on which the said quoted payment funds amount will be paid out with it to the owners.



Furthermore, I am starting my campaign rally for my second tenure in the office on the 20th of January 2018 so I wish to you this very great opportunity now to inform you officially, that your payment funds is ready to be paid out to you directly now without any further delay and at the same time, I will like to use you as my campaign organizer their in your country so that you will be representing me and help me secure the funds that my supporters and well wishers wish to support me campaign with from your country and all over the global world because as an oil producing nation, I have friends all over the world whom buy crude oil from my country as the President Federal Republic of Nigeria.


Finally, do furnish me with all your details as soon as you received and read this message now very important and deemed necessary please.

Here are the details to be supply with it as to enable me commence action towards the needful without any delay any more.

1. Your Full names and current residential address

2. Direct telephone number cell phone

3. Country Origin

4. Sex/ Occupation.



Further details and instructions shall be given to you immediately on the confirmation of your response.





His Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, President, Commander-in Chief, the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
My Dear Friend,

Let me first of all inform you, I got your email address from a mail Directory and decided to mail you for a permission to go ahead. I am Mrs. Anna Gates from United Kingdom, married to Dr. Harry R. Gates who worked with Texaco Oil Company in Malaysia before he died in a ghastly motor accident on his way to a Board meeting. My Husband and me were married but without any children. Since his death I decided not to re-marry and presently I am 69 Years old. When my late husband was Alive he deposited the sum of $16.5M(Sixteen Million Five Hundred Thousand U.S. Dollars) with a Bank.

Presently this money is still with the Bank and the management just Wrote me as the beneficiary to come forward to receive the money or rather Issue a letter of authority to somebody to receive it on my behalf. I am presently in a hospital where I have been undergoing treatment Cancer of the lungs. I have since lost my ability to talk and my doctors have told me that I have only a few months to live so I think the best thing to do is to use the money for charity purposes. I want a person who is trustworthy that I will make the beneficiary of my late Husband's Fund deposited with the bank so that the person can get the money and utilize 70% of this money to fund churches, orphanages and widows around the world.

As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the contact details of the Bank. I will also issue you a letter of authority that will prove you as the new beneficiary of this fund.Please assure me that you will act accordingly as I stated here in and Keep this contact confidential till such a time this funds get to your Custody. This is to ensure that nothing jeopardizes my last wish on Earth.

I await your urgent reply.

Regards,

Mrs. Anna Gates


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