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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: Edward Adamu <dipl.deangideon@googlemail.com>
Reply-To: cbn.crpcgovtoffices@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2022 00:34:28 -0700
Subject: Hello friend

Hello friend

I do not know how you will take this letter but i am doing this based on my
Christian faith and what tomorrow will be.
I am Mr .Edward Adamu,the office assistant to the Central Bank Governor.I
am not telling you this to impress you or to gain favor from you,rather i
am doing this to save you from further damage and pains.I have done this to
three people already,though two peoples betrayed me at the end. only
that lady buy apartment Susanne to show appreciation to me,

Your account that was Block from my wick Governor because they are using
some of your funds to give out loan and do their own Business every month
they do get profit from your funds.I look at this it pains me that is
reason why i decided to contact you secret if you like co-operate with me
and following my instruction,I have secret login and open cbn account and
removed some funds and loaded your funds into the software diskette
payment this should be part of your funds inside the diskette. If you are
interested do let me know for more information from me.secret is the key
of this payment.

Before I proceed,you must promise me first that nobody will know of this
and after you are satisfied with my job,you can help me in whatever way
your spirit directs you for my share.

This is very secret,I overheard the New Governor OF cbn saying that they
will make you tired and abandoned your Inheritance funds for them to later
divert to joint account using part of it doing there own business.

Please do not pay anything to them again regarding the release of your fund
because the President of Nigeria and the members of his Federal Executive
Council and United Nations have endorsed all your funds clearance documents
and your account is already activated which you can access at any
time.through your computer with the diskette online which I will send to
you by courier with all the transfer codes Manuel Directions.

It is just that some of our bank executives are very greedy and they have
created avenues to steal your money even when they know that the situation
is very critical. Myself and another Christian colleague in the office can
assist you only if you can agree with our instructions and The proposal is
that you should not allow anybody know of this as that will land us into
serious trouble and may even take our lives.

Now we have perfectly pulled out the Computer software Diskette Gazette
that contains your payment information with the access code transfer and
how you can log on and transfer the money from our CBN account to your bank
account online through your computer.

I will send it to you immediately.PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE our job is on the
line.I am only 34 years married with two kids ( A Boy and A Girl) and I
don't want to ruin my future or die at this early age.I do not make calls
on transactions like this due to the sensitive nature of this transaction
and my position with the CBN Everything should by my private email for now.

If this arrangement is OK by you please reply now and I will send the
diskette to you through TNT Courier and all these nonsense will stop and
you will be happily transfer your fund into your account by yourself which
I shall give you more direction booklet Manuel how you will login with the
code through your computer and start transferring your money with your
computer is very easy.and noted cbn governor will not know about it and my
government.as soon you made all the transfer bit by bit to all your
account,I will deletes all the information's from here system here so
nobody will find out.

I can't do the transfer here because of the secret,If I do this here they
will find out and block your funds which I don't want it to happen to
you,you will do it by yourself because transfer Manual and the direction
booklet and the code will be coming with the parcel Courier I will package
it secretly so that my airport customs agent will not know the contents.

I will declare it AND YELLOW TAG IT AS PERSONAL TO YOU,Only what we need to
spent tag express home delivering to your house that is all.

I will do other things here activation and procure all the code and makes
it legal back up all I will do it before shipping to you to start your
online diskette transfer.as soon you put in the diskette into your computer
the website will come out and you will log on your user name and your
password everything has been programmed secret by me.

THE USER NAME AND PASSWORD I will give to you when I read your mail all
will be into the package,do confirm your address and your phone number and
your Id card.secret we do OK.no authority will know about this.transfer
start bit by bit transfer from $100,000 dollars to $200,000.00 dollars per
day.the funds programmed online diskette is Five Million Dollars only after
you done with this I work for more.my share will be give to after all your
transfer.

THE STATED BELOW INFORMATION IS REQUIRED FOR SWIFT PROCESSING OF THIS
PAYMENT.

1. YOUR NAME:...
2. YOUR FULL ADDRESS:..
3. YOUR TELEPHONE....
4. AGE........
5. SEX:....................................
6. YOUR OCCUPATION ...............
7. A COPY OF YOUR IDENTITY............

Get back urgently.
Regards.

Mr .Edward Adamu.
(Office assistant to the Central Bank Governor).

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