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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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Fraud email example:

From: "INVESTIGATION UNIT" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <<revidowuke989@gmail.com>>
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2018 05:10:21 +0700
Subject: URGENT ATTENTION

my message...


Int'l. Wire Transfer/Telex Department,
Central Bank Of Nigeria,(CBN)
Our Ref: CBN/IRD/CBX/021/09

Attention:Dear Beneficiary of funds


Honestly after a serious thought, I have decided to personally reach you
directly because I do not have anything against you, but your so called
representatives working with you to realize the remittance of your payment.
However, have you ever wondered why you have been going this vicious circle
over the past years with respect to having your fund paid to you without any
success? It is possible that you were informed that your payment was brought
to me for finalization, neither were you informed that I am the person
frustrating every move to getyour fund remitted to your local bank account
in your country, I can assure you that this yet another deceit on the part
of your representative(s).Well, like I said earlier to you, I have nothing
against you or your payment but I'm only trying to protect my interest also.
I do not want to mention names here, but am certain you are aware of whom I
am referring to having not received your fund.

I am the Director, International Wire Transfer/Telex Department,Central Bank
of Nigeria, the apex bank in Nigeria. Some time in the past a representative
of yours approached me through afriend of mine who works with one of the
Government Ministries here and requested that I assist him conclude a money
transfer deal having you as the beneficiary and we all agreed.According to
him, he wanted to use this strategy to transfer a huge amount of US Dollars
by presenting your name as"Beneficiary" whose fund has not been paid.

Although we agreed that once I did that, he would give me 20% of the total
fund and he will equally give me your contact information before I release
the fund to your account. When he saw that I have programmed your fund for
onward transfer and your name has been approved among the list of those to
be paid as beneficiary, instead of him letting me have your contact
information to enable me regulate the transfer of funds and confirm when it
arrive in your account to enable me send to you my private account details
for my share of the 20% as was agreed previously, what he does was to start
avoiding me and which thereafter,resorted to threats,because of that,
immediately deleted your payment initializing code (PIC) from the list of
those to be paid, and this made it very IMPOSSIBLE for the transfer to be
completed to your account.

However, he your local representative became very angry when he came to
discovered i was smarter than his plots could not work out as he wrongly
wished. What he did was to start looking for other means of trying to bribe
other junior officers to see how they could assist him secure approval to
enable them transfer the money to you but all their efforts was to NO avail.
Is it not so funny my good friend, that youas a beneficiary is being asked
to pay several statutory fees over and over without your fund being
transfered to you as well expected. Well, your fund is right here with us
and am 100% responsible for the delay and obstructions of completing the
transfer of funds to your account because of the breach of the gentleman
agreement between me and your representative. If you doubt what I have just
told you now, then go ahead and pay any amount he may oblige you pay and
thereafter, he will subject you into another form of tax payment and it goes
on and on WITHOUT SUCCESS. I did not reveal the payment initia

AND AGAIN BEAR IN MIND YOUR PAYMENT IS NOT IN ANY OFFSHORE PAYMENT CENTER
FOR NOW and YOU WILL NEVER RECEIVE YOUR PAYMENT FROM ANY OFFSHORE CENTERS
FOR NOW AS FOLLOWS LONDON, SPAIN, HOLLAND, DUBAI, not even the United States
of America or anywhere outside Nigeria BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT THEY MAY HAVE
TOLD YOU. Now if you want us (you &I) to work together for me to conclude
the remittance to your account, these are my conditions.

(I). You must keep my information to you in this correspondence highly
secret because I don't want to get involve with he,yo
ur local representative
again in my life and I will have 20% of the money if successfully transfere
to your local bank account because it is only two of us in connection to
logical remittance of the fund to you.
(ii). You MUST assure me that you will not betray me at last and my own
share will be safe until when I will redirect you to lodged my part of the
fund into an account that i will forward to you.

(iii) As you have seen, it will be useless and mere waste of money if you
continue with your local representative and i can assure you that with trust
and confidence we will conclude the transaction with utmost secrecy and
confidentiality if you wish to adhere to my directives and instructions. If
these conditions are acceptable to you, contact me as soon as possible to
let us finalize all the arrangement and conclude the remittance of the fund
to you immediately without any other delay attached.

I will give you more important details once I hear from you based on if you
promise to keep away from your local representative and handle this matter
with utmost confidentiality because I want to transfer the money without the
knowledge of any other officer of the bank or even without the knowledge of
your local representative .
May the peace of our Jesus Christ be upon you.
Faithfully Yours In Him.
Rev. Idowu Kelvin

email....<revidowuke989@gmail.com>

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