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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: "Mark Obinna" <edwards@superlivre.com.br>
Reply-To: markobin@rayana.ir
Date: Thu, 03 May 2018 11:47:03 -0700
Subject: Hello Dear

Hello Dear,

My name is Mr. Mark Obinna a Computer Analyst in Central Bank of Nigeria. I am 30 years old, I started work with C.B.N. few months ago and I came across your payment file which was marked X and your released disk painted RED, I took time to study it and found out you have paid much fees and obtain certificates to enable you receive payment but fund has not been release to you. The most annoying thing is that they cannot tell you the truths that on no account will they ever release this fund to you; instead they let you spend more money unnecessarily to pay fees that will not secure your fund release.

I do not intend to work here all the days of my life as I can release the fund to you if you certify me of my security, meanwhile I will not wire directly into your bank account hence Nigerian Government will detect and stop transfer, I have made arrangement to wire directly into a suspend account in Dubai Bank, the person in charge who’s name/details will be forwarded to you after dully accepted, you are not require to send any fee/charges hence my reason is to move away from this country after completion of the transaction, Do not let me down also be honest to me until we conclude everything and share our fund.

Please this is like a war setting in Nigeria but you may not understand it because you are not here, Nigerian officials are a very greedy people that cannot be trustworthy for once. What I need from you is honesty and agreement that you will not in any way give out information to my bank colleagues/my Boss, I will immediately transfer fund into suspence account in Dubai Bank, also destroy your information from the computer and born your payment files while I run away to hide after which I will meet with you for sharing. If your satisfy with my proposal, do get back to me immediately with your full details,

Endeavor to send your convenient private telephone number for easy communications also re confirm your banking details.

Regards,

Mr. Mark Obinna
Computer Analyst
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)
Email: markobin@rayana.ir

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