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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: "Mr.Godwin Emefiele"<sales@meazafood.com>
Reply-To: cbngov605@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2021 17:53:10 -0700
Subject: Re: Did you permit the change of Beneficiary?

Attention: Esteemed Beneficiary:

In the course of our General Auditing and Account revision of the
second quarter of the financial fiscal year 2020, we discovered that
the Bank Accounts belonging to some Benefactors have been changed and
their addresses changed for receiving their ATM CARDS on the basis that the
owners have died some time last year or have given out an
authorization note of change of data.

After the investigations however, it was revealed that there are
Foreigners who are collaborating with Retired Staffs of our commercial
banks here i.e UBA, Zenith Bank, Eco Bank, GTB E.T.C to make these
changes illegally without the knowledge of the Bonafide Benefactors
and one traced to your own change is this Mr. Jim Hermann who said you
died last year. They have also forwarded a bank account which is not
on your name.

But we wanted to confirm if actually this is true and hence decided to
write to your email address which after 2 days from now and there is
no response, we will then know that you are dead indeed and go on with
the Delivery Method, because it was decided that it has to be through
cash Transmission method via diplomatic delivery means. If proved
otherwise by you that you did not die, please forward to us all the
related Benefactors particulars including your Telephone number,
contact address.

These details from you will help to assist us reach a conclusion that
you are not dead. Anything contrary to this claim will help us charge
this man to court and prosecute him while your fund will be delivered
to you immediately via diplomatic delivery means without any further delay.
We have decided to contact you for re-verification because we
suspected that Mr. Jim Hermann is trying to divert your money through
the sworn affidavit into a new different bank account. You are advised
to get back to this office.


Best Regards
Mr.Godwin Emefiele
Executive Governor
Central Bank Nigeria

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