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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: "Edward Adamu" <d1234@ufamts.ru>
Reply-To: adamuward@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2020 14:38:44 +0800
Subject: Re: Your Payment

Attention:

I am Mr. Edward Adamu from Telex Department Central Bank of Nigeria I am presently here in USA working with some US bank in regards of your payment from Central Bank of Nigeria.?I am given the mandate to directly transfer your outstanding payment of??US$ 10,500,000.00 (Ten Million Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars with current Payment reference number:??No. FERES9ASWIFT/USD, Allocation No: 67487632 Password No: 33988331,

with Beneficiary names and account details:
Beneficiary's Name:**********
Beneficiary's address:**********
Beneficiary's telephone:*******
Bank name:*******
Bank address**********
Account name:**********
Account number:***********
Swift code:*******

Please kindly re-confirm your bank details as listed above to ensure hitch free and smooth transfer. I hope you are sufficiently?informed, Thanks for anticipated co-operation.

Best regards,

Mr. Edward Adamu,
Dir. Foreign Remittance Department CBN
Off Samuel Akintola Street, Garki 11, Garki-Abuja


Central Bank of Nigeria
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