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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: "Rev John Luis" <info@revJluis.org>
Reply-To: jluis011@msn.com
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2019 04:25:32 -0300
Subject: Truth About Your Fund


Dear Friend,
Honestly after a serious thought, I have decided to personally reach you d=
irectly because I do not have anything against you, but your so called repr=
esentatives working with you to realize the remittance of your payment. How=
ever, have you ever wondered why you have been going this vicious circle ov=
er 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 brough=
t to me for finalization, neither were you informed that I am the person fr=
ustrating every move to get your fund remitted to your local bank account i=
n your country, I can assure you that this yet another deceit on the part o=
f your representative (s).Well, like I said earlier to you, I have nothing =
against you or your payment but I=2019m 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 B=
ank of Nigeria, the apex bank in Nigeria. Some time in the past a represent=
ative of yours approached me through a friend 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.Accordi=
ng to him, he wanted to use this strategy to transfer a huge amount of US D=
ollars by presenting your name as=201CBeneficiary=201D whose fund has not b=
een paid.
Although we agreed that once I did that, he would give me 20% of the tota=
l fund and he will equally give me your contact information before I releas=
e the fund to your account. When he saw that I have programmed your fund fo=
r onward transfer and your name has been approved among the list of those t=
o be paid as beneficiary, instead of him letting me have your contact infor=
mation to enable me regulate the transfer of funds and confirm when it arri=
ve 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 avo=
iding me and which thereafter,resorted to threats,because of that, I immedi=
ately deleted your payment initializing code (PIC) from the list of those t=
o be paid, and this made it very IMPOSSIBLE for the transfer to be complete=
d to your account.
However, he your local representative became very angry when he came to d=
iscovered i was smarter than his plots could not work out as he wrongly wis=
hed. What he did was to start looking for other means of trying to bribe ot=
her junior officers to see how they could assist him secure approval to ena=
ble them transfer the money to you but all their efforts was to NO avail. I=
s it not so funny my good friend, that you as a beneficiary is being asked =
to pay several statutory fees over and over without your fund being transfe=
red to you as well expected. Well, your fund is right here with us and am 1=
00% responsible for the delay and obstructions of completing the transfer o=
f funds to your account because of the breach of the gentleman agreement be=
tween me and your representative abi initio. If you doubt what I have just =
told you now, then go ahead and pay any amount he may oblige you pay and th=
ereafter, he will subject you into another form of tax payment and it goes =
on and on WITHOUT SUCCESS. I did not reveal the payment initializing code (=
PIC) to any junior staff of the bank even till now because I want to avoid =
further betrayal hence no office can release the payment. I actually have t=
he power to remit the fund to your account but strictly on terms and condit=
ions. But, since I have gotten your email address through the bank data bas=
e network,I decided to contact you directly to resolve issues with you in o=
ther to allivate you from the long suffering subjected to you by your untru=
sted representative.
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 State=
s 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 se=
cret because I don't want to get involve with he,your local representative =
again in my life and I will have 40% of the money if successfully transfer =
to your local bank account because it is only two of us in connection to lo=
gical remittance of the fund to you.
(ii). You MUST assure me that you will not betray me at last and my own s=
hare will be safe until when I will redirect you to lodged my part of the f=
und 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 tru=
st and confidence we will conclude the transaction with utmost secrecy and =
confidentiality if you wish to adhere to my directives and instructions. I=
f 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 fun=
d to you immediately without any other delay attached.
I will give you more important details once I hear from you based on if y=
ou promise to keep away from your local representative and handle this matt=
er with utmost confidentiality because I want to transfer the money without=
the knowledge of any other officer of the bank or even without the knowled=
ge of your local representative .Email : jluis011@msn.com
Faithfully Yours In Him.
Rev John Luis
Int=2019l. Wire Transfer/Telex Department,
Central Bank of Nigeria
This email attached and any files transmitted with it are intended solely =
for the use of CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA. This message contains confidential=
information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not =
the intended recipient please notify the system manager. You should not dis=
seminate, distribute or copy this e-mail and remove all copies from your em=
ail and backup system.

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