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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. (DCP) MOHAMMED UMAR ABBA" <tntcourier.compy@gmail.com>
Reply-To: sr.edwardadams@aol.com
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2021 06:58:39 +0100
Subject: Dear Email Owner,

Good day...$%
I am Mr. Mohammed Umar Abba the acting chairman of the ECONOMIC AND
FINANCIAL CRIMES COMMISSION (EFCC) in alliance with the Economic
Community of West African states (ECOWAS) with head office here in
Nigeria. We have been working towards the eradication of fraudsters
and scam Artists in the Western part of Africa With the help of the
United States Government and the United Nations.

We have been able to track down so many of this scam in various parts
of West Africa such as (REPUBLIC OF BENIN, TOGO, GHANA, CAMEROON,
NIGERIA, MALI AND SENEGAL) and they are all in our custody here in
Lagos Nigeria.

The Anti-corruption war has taken a new turn as the past chairman of
this commission Mr. Ibrahim Magu a retired police officer, was
suspended as EFCC chairman last year 2020 due to corruption charges
five years after he took over as head of the anti-graft agency on 9
November 2015, he is under investigation for fraud including the
diversion of recovered funds and assets and alleged diversion of N1
trillion, he is currently being investigated for more evidence, you
can also follow the link for more informations.


The EFCC as an agency that is founded on transparency is not afraid of
any “probe” or request for information regarding its activities by
individuals, groups or organs of government; so far as such requests
followed due process of law. The EFCC under Magu did not need the
prompting of anyone, when it commissioned a reputable international
audit firm, KPMG to carry out a comprehensive audit of exhibits and
forfeited assets of the Commission from 2003 of its inception to date.

We also arrested some who claim to be barristers, bank officials,
government officials, lottery agents who with-held your funds, have
money for transfer or want you to be the next of kin of such funds
which does not exist.

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/198289-lawyers-acting-technical-advisers-criminals-efccs-magu.html

We have been able to recover so much money from this hoodlums, corrupt
government officials and scam artists, the New minister of Finance
Federal Republic of Nigeria Mrs. Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed under president
Muhammadu Buhari, and the CBN issued a statement on February 20th 2016
to the effect that the CBN is against the fleecing of customers under
any guise and with the mandate of the Apex Bank, issued a deposit
refund of N6.2 Billion excess charges on cost of transaction for 2015
alone. This refund, the CBN said arose from more than 6,000 complaints
of unauthorised bank charges brought to its notice. So the United
Nations Anti-crime commission and the United States Government have
ordered the money recovered to be shared among 100 Lucky
beneficiaries whose information was obtained from the impostors.

This email is being directed to you because your email address was
found in the hard disk belonging to the recently suspended Chairman
Mr. Ibrahim Magu during investigation by the Department of State
Services (DSS) and with information gathered, we discovered you have
been scammed of so much money, so there is a mandate to compensate you
as a part of the recipient of this payment phase in order to recover
the lost of your fund, you are therefore being compensated with the
total sum of US$2.5 Million Dollars.

Since your name appeared among the lucky beneficiaries who will
receive a compensation of US$2.5 Million, we have made arrangement to
register an online banking through our global bank where you will have
full access to your Online Banking Account, to transfer your fund
personally to your private bank account with no complication of things
or questioning as the account will be fully registered in your name.

The online banking Processing makes it much easier for you to transfer
your funds to your private bank account personally. Once registered,
you are only allowed to transfer the maximum amount of US$500.000.00
daily/instalmentally until the total amount of your
compensated/deposited fund is transferred and completely paid to you.
Therefore, you are advise to contact the processing officer Anti-Crime
Foreign Operation Department of the (EFCC) Mr. Edward Adams who is in
charge of your funds transfer process with your information required
for verification below.

CONTACT PERSON: Mr. Edward Adams
CONTACT EMAIL ADDRESS: efccofficedept@aol.com

Provide the information below to enable the processing of your online
banking account for deposition of your total compensation fund.

1) YOUR FULL NAMES.
2) YOUR ADDRESS.
3) YOUR TELEPHONE NUMBER.
4) YOUR OCCUPATION.
5) YOUR IDENTITY/INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT
6) COUNTRY.

Contact Mr. Edward Adams with the information required for
verification to enable him start the processing of your online bank
account Registration, we GUARANTEE you your safety and wish you the
best of luck.
We must all act as the AGENT of stamping out corruption, THE EAGLE will get you.

Best Regard,
Mr. (DCP) MOHAMMED UMAR ABBA

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