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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: "TELEX AND TELEGRAPHIC WIRE TRANSFER SECTION" (may be fake)
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2020 12:56:57 -0700
Subject: PAYMENT UPDATE OF YOUR MONEY

Attn:

I know that you might be surprised on this mail, but I am telling you the truth. I know that it is against my official duty to release confidential issues like this to an outsider, AM the Director of the TELEX SECTION in charge of all TELEGRAPHIC WIRE TRANSFER SERVICES of the FIRST BANK OF NIGERIA, PLC.

What I want to tell you is about your CONTRACT MONEY of $7MILLION - USD you EXECUTED FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF NIGERIA, your CONTRACT MONEY LONG OVER - DUE FOR PAYMENT by the Federal Government of Nigeria. There are a lot of DIRECTORS of GOVERNEMNT MINISTRIES and AGENCIES in charge of the FUND RELEASE AND TRANSFERS working against the release and transfer of your $7MILLION - USD to your bank account long ago, right from the FEDERAL PAY OFFICE, to the CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA and even all the CENTRAL BANK Governors past and present, this was as a result of poor representation, they are using your MONEY to run their own PERSONAL BUSINESS. It is a reality and not related to you alone as a few other complaints have equally been reported in this respect.

There is a way I can assist you get your $7 MILLION - USD TRANSFERRED to any BANK OF YOUR CHOICE, it is risky but one have to take it, I have assisted some FOREIGNERS recently and it worked out very well. What you have to do now is to go and open another bank account any where any bank, you have to bear in mind that you have to re-transfer the fund to another account immediately you confirmed the receipt of the $7MILLION - USD in your account, I know why I want it this way, to avoid been traced very soon.

Note: If I assist you to do the TRANSFER and you receive your $7 MILLION - USD successfully in your bank account, you will have to give me $2 MILLION - USD of the $7MILLION - USD for helping you transfer your $7MILLION - USD to your bank account.

If you want me to go ahead, let me know as soon as you get this mail, so that I can include your name in the next PAYMENT SCHEDULE and make the transfer without further delay. It might be in the next 6 months that they will find out this transaction, I expect you by then that, you must have re-transferred the fund into another account, because once the transaction is done it will be deleted from the computer payment database system so that the fund cannot be traced by the NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT as quickly as possible.

Get back to me through this email: jhnabh@ymail.com as soon as you receive this email so that I will what to do in time.

Yours sincerely,

JOHN ABOH,
DIRECTOR,
TELEX SECTION,
FIRST BANK OF NIGERIA, PLC.

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