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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: "DR.OLUSEGUN O. AGANGA" <groombride4@gmail.com>
Reply-To: oluseguolutonyiaganga@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2023 09:13:33 +0100
Subject: MANDATE FOR PAYMENT; WHY DID YOU APPOINT HIM TO RECEIVE YOUR FUND?

--
FROM OFFICE OF THE
DR.OLUSEGUN O. AGANGA.
SPECIAL ADVISER TO
CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA & FORMER
MINISTER OF INDUSTRY,TRADE AND INVESTMENT
FOREIGN FUND RELEASE DEPARTMENT.
CBN/FGN/IMF/03/2023.


ATTENTION: BENEFICIARY,


This message should not be a coincident to you but a matter of fact as we
communicate with you base on the last meeting between our President
Muhammadu Buhari, and the new UN Secretary-General, António Guterres,
International Monetary Fund (IMF) ,World Bank and World Health Organization
(WHO).The outcome of the meeting is how to release the pending funds
belonging to all beneficiaries /contractors who have waited for the past
years and applied every effort to receive their benefited fund which have
proven abortive. We have been working on this issue since October 2022 but
could not be reached until now.

But the new condition agreed by our President is that he should cooperate
with the Organization involved to ensure that every beneficiary who have
not receive any of there pending payment do what is required immediately
and for every person involve to receive his/her fund base on this period
of PANDEMIC COVID-19 so that they can use there fund to help the sick
around them and save the life of may people affected. And this condition
was given to our Country based on the several loans they are receiving from
the World Bank and through the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to save
our own country.

So far our dear President has received the sum of US$78 Billion Dollars
from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) as support to
save our nation. But they want our own government to do the same by
releasing the pending fund to every beneficiary that complies with our
government to ensure that he/she is paid legally. The Federal Government
of Nigeria has giving Central Bank of Nigeria the last order to pay any
beneficiary /contractors who comply to obtain the required documents needed
for the release of his/her fund into the beneficiary account or set up an
online account in favor of the beneficiary.

But we are surprise that after the last meeting between Presidential
Advisory Council and Central Bank New Committee; we discovered that our
Director ,Corporate Communications department has received account details
from one Rev. Lawrence R. Larson from United States claiming that you
instructed him to receive your own approved fund on your behalf as your
NEXT OF KIN with reason that you are been affected by COVID-19 and you
don't think you will survive and will not be able to follow up your
transaction. We received an e-mail together with his account information
below; but we have refused to act on this information without an authorized
document signed by you, please if you're alive, can you quickly return this
message and confirm if this information is true or false.


Account Name: Rev. Lawrence R. Larson, D.Th.
Name of Bank: MERCANTILE BANK FLORIDA
Address: 11250 S.W. 93rd Court Road, Suite 700,
Ocala, Florida 34481
Swift Code: CFBKUS33
Routing Number: 063113772
Account Number: 8602516626



Kindly reconfirm to us with this information below as proof that we are
dealing with the right person and you have not sent Rev. Lawrence R.
Larson, to claim your fund as your NEXT OF KIN because we are ready to work
on your payment based on the instruction we receive. (1)YOUR FULL NAME,
(2)AGE (3)OCCUPATION (4). DIRECT TELEPHONE (5)YOUR CONTACT ADDRESS AND COPY
OF YOUR I.D. We are ready to work with you in confidence.

Yours truly,

DR.OLUSEGUN O. AGANGA.
SPECIAL ADVISER TO
CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA & FORMER
MINISTER OF INDUSTRY, TRADE AND INVESTMENT
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA.

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