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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.Tony Anthony" <test@wscmusic.com>
Reply-To: tony_anthony123@aol.com
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 13:12:40 -0700
Subject: Attention Beneficiary

International Association of Anti Fraud Authorities
Head office: No.147 Beiheyan Street, Dongcheng District Lagos - Nigeria
Motto: Convention Against Anti Corruption/Crime

Attention Beneficiary

After proper and several investigations and research by International Association of Anti fraud Authorities head office LAGOS - NIGERIA, our payment database discovered that you are among those whom left their approved funds ($2.5Million Dollars) unclaimed due to lack and misinformation by those office trying to contact through CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA AND THE UNITED BANK FOR AFRICA.

Right now we are working very hard to track every fraudsters down, do not respond to their e-mails, letters and phone calls any longer as they are scammers and you should be very careful to avoid being a victim to fraudsters any longer because they have nothing to offer you but to rip-off what you have worked earnestly hard to earn.

In this regard a meeting that was held on the 25st of July,2019 between the Board of Directors of The International Association of Anti fraud Authorities and as a consequence of our investigations it was agreed by the top committee that you the beneficiary will make a choice of the said funds because the funds was legally APPROVED in your name by the Federal Government of Nigeria.

As a matter of fact, we have been on this investigation assignments for some time now and unknown to no one but the Presidency and some top government official who are in support of this investigation team to help stop fraudulent activities in this country. Although we have been able to come up with some good result about the people that have extorted money from you illegally and I wish to list some of them so that you will personally indicate them by writing back to us because we want to make your payment to you without any delay but we must surely deal and bring this names to book if only you will indicate correctly any of them below:

1) Mr Kennedy Uzoka Group Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer UNITED BANK FOR AFRICA
2) Mr Ibrahim Lamorde former Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
3) Mr. Charles Chukwuma Soludo Former Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria
4) Mr Sanusi Lamido Aminu Sanusi Former CEO, First Bank of Nigeria
5) Mr Ken Allen (Chairman) DHL Express Courier Serive Wolrdwide

The above listed names have been traced/investigated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission - EFCC and some of them have elope the country and note that if any of them is caught and found guilty he/she will be jailed for 25 years (twenty five years) as it is listed under Decree 47 of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria under the sub-section of criminal law.

This office will respect your most decision on the issue of claiming your fund!

We await for you prompt respond today before we proceed with further information.

Yours in Service

Mr.Tony Anthony
Director: International Association of Anti Fraud Authorities
CC: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF NIGERIA
CC: INTERNATIONAL MONITORY FUNDS
CC: UNITED NATIONS ORGANIZATION

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