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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Dr. Rashid M. Osama" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <fdpo.office@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2020 22:35:23 +0200
Subject: OVERDUE PART PAYMENT VIA DIRECT ELECTRONIC FUND TRANSFER

FOREIGN DEBT PAYMENT OFFICE
(MEMBER IBRD, IDA & WORLD BANK)
102 YAKUBU, GOWON CRESCENT
GARKI, ABUJA -NIGERIA
Tel: +234 9093496579, Tel/Fax: +234-9-2340512
E-mail: fdpo.office@gmail.com
 
 
Attn: Sir (Fund beneficiary),
 
REF: ENDORSEMENT OF FUND RELEASE AUTHORITY ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS AND THE RELEASE OF YOUR OVERDUE PART PAYMENT VIA DIRECT ELECTRONIC FUND TRANSFER
 
This is to notify you that our office received another notification dated 26th
June 2020 from the United Nations to process and release your payment within 72hrs before the end of the Second Quarter of the 2020 Fiscal Year. The directive resulted from a petition directed to the United Nations by some foreign fund beneficiaries from America, Europe and Asia who appealed to the high powered international institutions to come to their rescue by ensuring the release of their Contract, Compensation, Inheritance and Lottery Claims payment.
 
On the strength of the petition, the United Nations in collaboration with United Nations andf Nigerian Government through the authorization of the new UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed directed our office to investigate the circumstances leading to the present impasse and use our position to finalize your payment. The directive we received mandated our office to stop un-official misconduct, deliberate delay on foreign payment through unnecessary use of bureaucratic procedures, diversion of funds to other accounts that is not authorized by the beneficiary and imposition of unauthorized fees. The World Bank further issued directives to international banks oversea and local banks in Nigeria, the CBN, Payment Committees and all international financial institutions to hands off all payments and hand over beneficiaries’ payment files to our office. This is to avoid duplication of assignment and to avoid creating confusion in the payment process. It is quite obvious that some
 
In accordance with this new directive from the United Nations an urgent meeting of vital government stakeholders, international and local financial institutions, CBN and government committees was summoned by our office. During the meeting a lot of irregularities and misrepresentation of fact and irregular/unauthorized change of account was revealed. In the process, we discovered you have not endorsed the Fund Release Authority original documents backing your payment. There is no trace of any such document in your file. Apparently, this is the major reason your payment hasn’t been released. You may agree with me that the offices (real or fictitious) you are dealing with presently will tell you otherwise because of their ulterior motive. This is the reason why after several payments you have made; your payment is yet to be released to you. Note also that the information contained in your payment file which was forwarded to our office from the Federal Ministry of Finance shows that yo
 
Consequently, to avoid payment to wrong beneficiary you are directed to contact the undersigned on Tel: +234 9093496579 or Email: fdpo.office@gmail.com for further details concerning the endorsement of the classified documents which will facilitate the release of your payment without further delay. Note that our office, Federal Government or the United Nations will not be held liable for wrong payment should you refuse to comply. Once you comply your payment file will be reconciled, normalized and regularized before the endorsement so that your overdue payment can be released 24hr thereafter. Swift response is required to enable our office conclude your payment within 72hrs.
 
Note that it will cost you a token fee to process the original documents and arrange the paper work for you to sign so that the fund will be wired within 24hrs. It’s a wild goose chase without the endorsement of this twelve paged hard copy document.
 
Yours faithfully,
 
Dr. Rashid M. Osama
DIRECTOR OF PAYMENT

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