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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: george ako <georgeako7@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2023 07:32:27 -0700
Subject: We commend you for your patience and understanding


This is to officially inform you as our off-shore client that following the
Nigerian President initiative on Foreign Debt payment along with the
Nigerian senate, on Debt Reconciliation and payment, with the World Bank
in collaboration with International Monetary Fund (IMF) agreement, I am
mandated to follow up on your contract / inheritance payment, having
completed the vetting and verification process of your payment file, I do
hereby confirm to you that your claim is 80% legitimate so far and my
committee are now working round the clock to complete the remaining 20%
to ascertain truly that you did a contract in Nigeria or have an
inheritance fund to claim and not a fictitious claims as we do have many of
such cases here that we are treating now.
However, we commend you for your patience and understanding over these
years, as, a proper measures have been put in place by the government to
make sure you receive your payment this time without any further delays,
but bear in mind that there is absolutely no way we can complete this
assignment without your full and maximum corporation.
So, you must realize one thing which is very important that, your past
experience has nothing to do with this new arrangement or method of payment
of procedure that has been put in place, so you must abide by it if you
really want/need this payment completed quickly.
Terms and method of payment is that your Payment is to be paid to you in my
committee office, because it is about Personal identification before
payment, This means, the payment must be made to you in person and not by
proxy or wired transfer without seeing you in our office thereby signing
the payment release order in our approved paying Bank here in Nigeria along
with my committee members.
Meanwhile, Tentative approval of $10.500.000.00 million USD has been
authorized by the president himself as part payment for you to settle your
contract/ inheritance payment and to help you cushion the effect you have
gone through since trying to get your payment for the past years while we
work on the balance in the very near further.
If you are satisfied with this arrangement, do reply immediately to have
your name short listed for this operation, for this is only on first come
first serve basis and inform me when you will be in Nigeria for your
payment claim and release.
Finally, as soon as we hear from you, and your arrival date to be in
Nigeria your payment details will be programmed for final release into
your banking details that you will supply us upon you touched down in
Nigeria, the decision is now yours and be guided.

Yours truly,
Mr.George Ako
The Chairman Foreign Debt Settlement Committee
The Presidency Federal Republic of Nigeria
Direct telephone line: 234-701 200 7340.
Tel/Fax 234-1-476-4733

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