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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: christipher James <christopherjames1g@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2021 13:12:17 +0100
Subject: From Foreign Creditors Intervention Office

From The Desk of Mr Christopher James.
Supreme Court of Nigeria
Three-Arms Zone
P.M.B. 308. Garki Abuja
Reply this mail to this Email Address: christopherjjames@emailn.de

Sir,

With this mail, I wish to bring to your knowledge that upon my
assumption of office and subsequent investigation as the newly
appointed Chairman of the Payment Verification and Implementation
Committee popularly called "Foreign Creditors Intervention Office" I
came across your name as unpaid fund beneficiary in the record of the
central bank of Nigeria and other banks that are suppose to get your
funds released to you. My committee was set as the payment
reconciliation

committee to verify and scrutinize all outstanding debts owed to our
foreign beneficiaries in compliance with the Bilateral Charter and
Agreement recently signed with the government of the United States and
other member nations of the United Nations [UN], European Union [EU]
and the Commonwealth to ensure immediate liquidation of the heavy debt
burden of the Federal Government of Nigeria and other Member nations
of the African Union yet unpaid to foreign beneficiaries.

Having seen your file and my further questioning to the officials of
the Central Bank of Nigeria [CBN] and Ministry of Finance as to why
your payment is still pending reveals the gross corruption in the
system. The bank officials told me that the reason why you haven't
received your payment is due to your inability to pay for the required
charges for transfer of funds to your account. When I asked them why
they didn't deduct the said charges from your principal sum, I was
given the flimsy excuse that you never authorized them to do so. When
I put the question across to them if they ever advised you that such
charges could be deducted from your principal fund,the answer I got
was no. Now, if you do not tell this beneficiary that such charges
could be deducted from his or her principal fund, how will he or she
know that such options are available for such beneficiaries.

From my investigation I discovered that these bank officials
deliberately refused to let the charges be deducted from your
principal fund because they want your fund to remain trapped in the
bank, while they continue to extort money from beneficiaries like your
good self with some flimsy excuses.Therefore, under this new
arrangement under my stewardship as the Chairman of this august
committee, you do not need to pay any money to any official, all you
are required to do is swear to an Affidavit of credence" at the
Federal High Court of Nigeria, authorizing the bank to deduct all
charges from your principal fund and transfer the balance of funds to
your bank account.

Further more, it has been stipulated in the Payment Enabling Code of
Conduct upon which this office thus Foreign Creditors Intervention
office was established that all eligible creditors like yourself
should calculate all monies have spent in the past in pursuit of their
payment and kindly forward them to us so that at the final release of
your principal fund, we shall put up the necessary supplementary claim
to repatriate such unwarranted expenses and extortion[s] back to you
in addition to your principal claim.

You should feel free to contact me on my direct mail stated herein and
call me on phone for further clarification and directives to achieve
the uninterrupted deductions and timely release of your fund as per
schedule.

I am waiting for your urgent and positive response to enable me to
advise you further and properly to achieve this goal.

Reply this mail to this Email Address:christopherjjames@emailn.de

Yours sincerely,

Mr Christopher James.
Chiarman Payment Verification
Committee.,

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