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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.Ikenna Ojukwu" <opianto212@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2023 16:09:18 +0100
Subject: Re: Information for your payment

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Dear sir,

I am Mr.Ikenna Ojukwu, the confidential Secretary to the Governor Central
Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Dr.Godwin Emefiele. I have urgent information about
your payment which is vital to you, if you promise not to betray me.

The information is about your outstanding payment with the Federal
Government of Nigeria, which you are supposed to receive before now. My
boss (The CBN governor)and some of his colleagues in other ministries and
local banks that are involved in your transaction has conspired to divert
your fund to their private account overseas and the strategy they employed
is by demanding several unnecessary fees/charges from you which never
reflected in your file, Their only purpose of doing this is to frustrate
you so as to abandon your funds thereby paving ways for them to refer your
funds as unclaimed deposit and divert it to their private accounts overseas.

Recently, our President mandated my boss to release a partial payment of
US$5M to you, but he did not pass the information to you. Please, this
information I am giving to you is a great risk on my side as both my life
and job are at stake, but I know that if I help you get your partial
payment of US$5,000, 000. 00 (Five Million US Dollars) as directed by the
President you will not forget my efforts.

Please if you are not going to put me into trouble about this development,
kindly contact me for further details on how to proceed towards the
successful remittance of your fund and please do not tell anyone about this
secret information I'm giving to you.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Best regards,

Mr.Ikenna Ojukwu
Confidential Secretary to the governor
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)

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