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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: "Mrs. Rita Efiong" <test@hostwindsdns.com>
Reply-To: officedesk@qq.com
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2019 14:11:27 +0100
Subject: YOUR FUND.

Hello Beneficiary!


I am calling you now to come up and claim back what you have lost to impostors/scammers. I cannot keep it further as my conscience reminds me of my duties as one who believes in equity and fair play, my name is Mrs. Rita Efiong, (personal adviser on international funds transfer to the executive governor of Central Bank of Nigeria). my fmr boss and some of his colleagues from several other ministries who are assigned with the duty of transferring your fund to you have conspired together to divert your fund to another account and the strategy they employed was by demanding several charges from you which you may have already paid some and left some unpaid, all the demands are illegal and intentionally designed to frustrate you to abandon your payment for them, they are currently working with fake finance minister, Attorney General of the Federation and some commercial bank chief executives in order to perfect their evil activities. He has counterparts in almost every country like United Kingdom, United States,

As a matter of fact, (Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi) the fmr Executive Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria CBN (now suspended) and his colleagues instructed me to change your payment details with the one they have just nominated for immediate transfer but i refused, note that they will frustrate you for ever if you continue dealing with them because they will never do the right thing since the quest for too much worldly gains has blinded their sense of reasoning, am in charge of crediting comptroller to infuse all those information but i am purposely delaying it as my mindset does not accept such evil.

I can release this fund to you if I am sure that I will be protected if not my life will be in danger? This money will be transferred to their private account if you further delay. If you are willing to get your payment direct into your account or through any other means, call or email me and reconfirm your account particulars and other related information's but if you chooses other legitimate ways let me know and forward your contact details to me immediately upon the receipt of this message.

At the receipt of this letter kindly call me or you forward your confidential cell phone number to me but don't expose this secret, even to those you are currently dealing with in respect of your payment both local and international and note that they are all agents working for the CBN fmr Executive Governor please stop communicating with them henceforth or you will remain frustrated in their cage, they have contacts all over the World but as far as i am concerned your payment will not be tampered with, but please Kindly consider this secret information as a top secret and highly privileged and should be kept till the end of time as having it divulged is a great risk on my side, if you're not interested do not bother to reply, otherwise your prompt response will do you a lot of good by having the right things done.

You should have asked why after all the series of fees you paid yet the transaction was still not concluded, it was a deliberate act to frustrate you out of the business.

Looking forward to your immediate response. For further clarifications, do not hesitate to contact my office.

Yours faithfully.

Mrs. Rita Efiong
Personal adviser on international funds transfer to the executive governor,
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)

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