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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: "SENATOR HARUNA GEORGE" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <aswendy112@gmx.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2010 14:01:36 +0100
Subject: Attn: Reply Immediately!

Attn: Honorable Beneficiarys,
 
We, the entire members of the Federal House of Senate, on behalf of the Federal Republic of Nigerian Government, under the auspices of the civilian Head of
State, President UMARU MUSA YAR'ADUA PRESIDENT NIGERIA and the Senate President, DAVID MARK held a meeting last week concerning payment, both foreign and
local contractors and some inheritance funds/ Winning Payment.
 
On going through files, we discovered that your file was dumped untreated. So at this juncture, we apologize for the delay of your payment and you should
please stop further communicating with any office now and pay attention to the appointed office below for immediate release of your overdue fund. Now you are
directed to contact the Office of the Paymaster General (Union Bank of Nigeria) April Munyon immediately so that your fund valued US$8.7M will be transfer to
your bank account. Contact him now and inform him that you received a payment instruction from The Federal House of Senate Federal Republic of Nigeria,
instructing you to forward you information for immediate transfer of your approved fund. You have to send the details information to him for the transfer.
 
CONTACT PERSON;
MR. APRIL MUNYON.
POSITION: DIRECTOR, INTL,REMMITTANCE UNION  BANK OF NIGERIA.
Email: sardy23@googlemail.com
PHONE NO:+234-803-3347436
 
INFORMATION REQUEST FOR YOUR TRANSFER.
 
1) YOUR FULL NAME:
2) FULL ADDRESS OF YOUR CITY, STATE AND COUNTRY:
3) PHONE, FAX AND MOBILE:
4) COMPANY NAME, POSITION AND ADDRESS:
 
5A)BANK INFORMATIONS;
 
A) BANK NAME:
B) BANK ADRESS:
C) ACCOUNT NUMBER:
D) SWIFT CODE:
E) ROUTING NUMBER:
F) IBAN NUMBER:
G) PROFESSION, AGE AND MARITAL STATUS:
H) A COPY OF YOUR INT'L PASSPORT/DRIVERS LICENSE:
 
NOTE: We have mounted our security network to monitor every in-coming calls and emails, if we still find out that you are still dealing with all those that
have been frustrating the release of your fund, we shall stop and cancel your payment immediately we receive such information that you are still in contact
with them .This message is from Senate House Under the instruction of SENATOR GEORGE HARUNA IBRAHIM on foriegn payment matters.
 
Best Regards,
 
SENATOR GEORGE HARUNA IBRAHIM,
Chairman Senate Committee on Foreign Payment.
(Federal Republic of Nigeria).
 

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