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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 Paul Nelly <goodluckpaul04@gmail.com>
Reply-To: paulnelly0@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2019 21:32:13 +0100
Subject: ACCRUED INTEREST PAYMENT ADVICE

Dear Customer.

Attn:

RE: ACCRUED INTEREST PAYMENT ADVICE

I AM Mr. Paul Nelly, the Director, foreign operations and head of
payment verification unit of union
Bank PLC, Lagos Nigeria, in line with the instruction from the
presidency that your accrued interest
should be paid to you immediately instead of the principal sum,
which has been the case before now.

Some time ago, your contract / inheritance sum was brought to our
bank by the central bank of
Nigeria (CBN), after some period of time; the money was taken back
to the Federal Government
Treasury. This was done because of the autocracy from the CBN
where they use beneficiary money
to make interest from deposit with local banks for short period of
time. This has frustrated so many
fund beneficiaries and also caused several delay from getting
foreign beneficiaries paid their due sum.

But with the intervention of the Presidency giving the union Bank
of Nigeria the unanimous right to
handle all foreign payment under the supervision of the CBN. As
the case maybe, the CBN has
declared the sum of US$7,000,000.00. (Seven Million United
States Dollars) as your accrued interest and also approved this sum to
be paid to
you without any further delay. It is my duty to verify your
information and also ensure that the said
amount is immediately allocated for payment.
NB: KINDLY GET BACK TO ME WITH YOUR FULL NAME
INCLUDING YOUR HOUSE ADDRESS, TELEPHONE NUMBER,
COPY OF YOUR IDENTITY.

Yours Faithfully,

Mr. Paul Nelly
Director, Foreign Operations {UNION BANK PLC}

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