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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" <maryambappah051@gmail.com>
Reply-To: emefielem@aol.com
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2022 11:04:55 -0700
Subject: FUND TRANSFER

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CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA,
OPERATIONS DIRECTORATE,
566 TO 599 VICTORIA ISLAND,
LAGOS NIGERIA.
( emefielem@aol.com )
Phone: +234-701-145-9171

FUND TRANSFER

I write to bring to your notice, a gentleman identified as Mr.Thomas Edward
Cork, address: 1200 Fitch Way, Sacramento, Ca. 95864 filed an application
contrary letter to your Pending fund. The above mentioned gentleman visited
this Bank with a power of attorney signed by you granting him the benefit
to process and claims your inheritance fund of $15,000,000.00(Fifteen
Million United States Dollars) on your behalf due to your financial
situation and health challenge at the moment as stated on the power of
attorney he presented.

Therefore, we ask him to return back within 48hours, to enable us to have a
personal confirmation notice from you being the legal beneficiary of the
fund.

We are sorry to have delayed this instruction and transaction till this
moment in giving out this fund since we must adhere to the procedures of
this honorable bank.

Please, did you sign power of Attorney in favor of Mr.Thomas E.Cork,thereby
making him the current beneficiary of your inheritance fund?

Your confirmation to the above information will be appreciated.We look
forward to hearing from you soon.

Best Regards

Yours sincerely
MR. GODWIN EMEFIELE
( emefielem@aol.com )
Phone: +234-701-145-9171

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