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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: AMNESTY PANEL DEPARTMENT <amnestypanel.department@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2023 16:36:18 +0100
Subject: APPROVED PART PAYMENT OF US$10.5M

FROM SENATOR IBRAHIM. BELLO
OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENCY
AMNESTY PANEL DEPARTMENT
GARKI ABUJA NIGERIA


APPROVED PART PAYMENT OF US$10.5M



Attn: Dear Beneficiary


Sir,


The Federal Government of Nigeria fund release Amnesty panel committee
have granted to release Part payment of US$10.5M your fund with REF-
NUMBER APD-NIG/719254/08/23.

This grace and approval was given to you yesterday to meet-up with the
deadline of the instruction of the President and to accomplish the
promise he made. All you need to do now is to contact this office as
soon as possible.

The President yesterday passed an IRREVOCABLE PAYMENT instruction to
us to contact you for the release of your fund. Therefore, you are
advised to forward your telephone number, identification along with
your bank account information to avoid paying to a wrong account.

Furthermore, you should try to get back to this office immediately
with the sum of US$185.00 only as being charge for issuance of
PRESIDENTIAL IRREVOCABLE PAYMENT Release ORDER, as it is the only
fee/charge to pay for the release of your fund.

Finally, you are also directed to get back to us as soon as you are
ready to send the US$165.00 so that I will forward to you the
information of the Federal Government Accredited Agent to you which
you should use to send the fee.

Looking forward to hearing from you as soon as possible.

Yours in service,

SENATOR IBRAHIM. BELLO
Public Relation Officer
Amnesty Panel Committee
Federal Republic of Nigeria.

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