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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: Philip Madu <dr.philipmadu2@gmail.com>
Reply-To: dr.philipmadu3@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2023 23:10:09 -0700
Subject: THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER.


CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA
Plot 33, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Way Central Business District,Cadastral
Zone,Abuja, Federal Capital Territory,Nigeria
E-mail:dr.philipmadu3@gmail.com

Our Ref: FGN/CFCR/CBN/SH-VOL.04/2022


Attn: Beneficiary

After a serious thought, I decided to reach you directly and personally
because I do not have anything against you, but your Nigeria partners.

I am the director of Wire Transfer/Telex Department of the Central Bank of
Nigeria, some time in the past your Nigeria partners approached me through
a friend of mine who works with one of the ministries here and requested
that I assist them conclude a money transfer deal.

They gave me your name, company’s name and bank particulars and told me to
put them into our computing system in the lab so that it will appears as if
you are one of the genuine contractors/inheritors that have been cleared
for payment.

According to them, they wanted to use this strategy to transfer a huge
amount of us dollars which they accumulated through inflated contract
awards and the money has been floating in the C.B.N since the original
contractors has been paid so they wanted to use your account to transfer
the surplus out of Nigeria. We agreed that once I do this, they would give
me us$100,000.00 and give me another us$100,000.00 when I released the fund
to your account.

When they saw that I have done that and your name has been approved among
the list of those to be paid, instead of giving me the agreed deposit of
us$100,000.00, they started avoiding me and resorted to threats. I
immediately deleted the transfer code of the fund, which is only known to
me because of my position, and release other contractor’s fund without
yours.

They became angry the more when they saw that their threat did not work,
and started bribing other officials to get another approval to transfer the
money to you without success. Approvals are almost free is it not funny
that a contractor is being asked to pay for approval while his millions is
here with us? Approvals are relatively free. I am 100% responsible for the
delay, and obstructions because of their breach of contract.

If you doubt what I have just told you, pay any amount they will ask you to
pay now, after a short time they will come up with another reason to pay
again and it goes on and on. they are simply wicked.

Now if you want us to work together, these are my conditions.

I). I will have 30% of the money because it is only the two of us left for
now.

2). You will assist my son to open an account in your country or any other
place of my choice where I will pay in my own share.

3). As you have seen, it will be useless and mere waste of money if you
continue with any other person, so we will conclude the transaction with
utmost secrecy with the above e-mail address.

4). Note that my telephone number will be given to you as soon as you
indicate your full interest to work with me.

5). If these conditions are acceptable to you, contact me as soon as
possible to let us finalize so that I will send to you our official KTT
wire transfer form to complete and I will release the money to your
account. But, if you are not interested, I advice you to forget the fund as
it will be transferred into our consolidated national reserve account.

I am also aware of the fact that, you are still in contact with some of
these criminals that are claiming or purporting them selves as top
Government Officials.They have been deceiving you all they want is your
money be warned.

You have to stop communication with any group of persons that you are in
contact with.

Best regards,
Philip Madu.
Director Wire Transfer/Telex department (C.B.N)

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