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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: "Mr.William C. Dudley" <hydro41754@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mrwilliamc.dudley9@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2018 15:05:13 +0100
Subject: GREETINGS


From the Desk Of Mr. William C. Dudley
Deputy governor Central Bank of Nigeria
ADDRESS : 33 Liberty, NY 10045-0001 Marina- Lagos Nigeria.

From the desk of Mr William C.Dudley

We apologies for the delay of your payment and all the inconveniences we
might put you through, while we were having some minor problems with our
payment system which in all case not meeting up with fund beneficiary
payments, we apologies once again.

From the records of outstanding contractors due for payment with federal
Government of Nigeria your name was discovered as next on the list out of
the 11 outstanding contractors who have not yet received their payments
during the 3 years tenure of the previous administration in office please
bear with us for making this initial contact through email. Meanwhile, a
woman came to this bank a few days ago with a letter claiming to be your
true representative and is willing to pay $150 the wire/transfer charge to
have the fund delivered to her. Here is her information’s below.

Name: Mrs.Annette Sacramento
Bank name: Citibank , Arizona , USA .
Account Number: 6503809008
Routing number: 322271627
Swift code#:WMSBUS66
Address: 1723 Palmdale Bulv
Palmdale ca..93550

Please do reconfirm to this bank as a matter of urgency if this woman is
from you or not so that the federal government will not beheld responsible
for paying into wrong account, if this woman is not your representative,
you requested to fill and send this information’s for verification purpose
so that your fund valued ($4.700, 000.00 usd) will be remitted in to your
nominated bank account.

Kindly reconfirm to the bank the following

1. Bank Name:
2. Bank account number:
3. Route number:
4. Swift code:
5. Company name:
6. Position:
7. Address:
8. Working Id/ int’l Passport
9. Age:
10. Your telephone number

Secondly,the only money you pay for the transfer to take place is just $150
being the approval payment certification from the government of Nigeria,and
you are giving a limited time to send the payment and please be advise that
you are to send the payment to office Marina- Lagos Nigeria and you are to
use this information to send the $150 and please be informed that you are
not going to pay any other payment to any body and do not be deceived by
any body to send any other payment.

As soon as the Payment information is received, your funds will be wired to
your bank account directly from Federal Bank Nigeria . We shall proceed to
issue all payments details to the said Mrs. Annette Stillman if we do not
hear from you within the next three working days from today. We are sorry
for any inconvenience the delay in transferring of your fund must have
caused you.

You alerted reply urgent

Sincerely.
Mr. William C. Dudley
Deputy governor Central Bank of Nigeria

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