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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: "Senator Ahmed I. Lawan" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <allduepayments1@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2020 09:57:46 -0800
Subject: Re: Hello your unpaid funds

Hello
 
 
Happy new year and all best wishes of this 2020.
 
 
This is to notify you of your unpaid funds with reference Number: AV/FGN/MIN/0020
(RE: APPROVAL OF YOUR $10.5 MILLION PAYMENT). We Apologies for the delay of your payment
which has been programmed for the final quarter, the Inconveniences and Inflict that the delay might
have indulge you through. However, where having some serious problems with your payment which
have demoralized us, In respect to this payment however, one Mr. James Banks submitted an
application that you authorized your funds to be paid to him on your behalf with a report that you are
now paralyzed as a result of the ghastly motor accident you had some months back and we would
like to confirm the below.
 
 
Following this report, I decided to carry out some investigations which lead to my finding out that
some officials has decided to use this opportunity to milk so many innocent people of their money
instead of having their funds transferred to them and at the same time trying to divert the funds to another account using the same information of the beneficiary or fake information and different account to receive the funds. They milk the beneficiary’s of their money to use it for their own selfish act and at the end they end up not been able to.
 
(1) Did you at any time delegate anybody not even from your family to claim your fund on your behalf?
(2) Were you involved in a motor accident?
(3) Are you aware or related to one Mr. James Banks? Or neither issued him any Power of Attorney
nor signed any Deed of Agreement?
 
Kindly confirm to me if you truly authorized this act or not as I sense that your funds are been
diverted. You are highly required to get back to me a.s.a.p to this email allduepayments1@gmail.com
and please include your phone number in your reply.
 
 
Regards,
 
 
Senator Ahmed Ibrahim Lawan

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