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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: "harrisblessingg@terra.es" <harrisblessingg@terra.es>
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 12:18:33 +0100 (MET)
Subject: PROF. HARRIS BLESSING



PROF. HARRIS BLESSING
DIRECTOR: CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA (CBN)
TINUBU SQUARE LAGOS-NIGERIA



Sir\Madam

I am writing on behalf of the Central Bank of Nigeria regarding your contract payment which has been approved for payment by the Senate Committee on Foreign Contracts.Your payment of $12,700,000.00 (Twelve Million Seven Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) only has been approved for payment by the Senate Committee of the
Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Just yesterday, a lady by name Mrs. Theresa Lawson came to the Central Bank of Nigeria with a lawyer applying for a change of beneficiary to her name on the same payment. She said that you have instructed her to receive the $12.7M on your behalf as your partner.We are writing to inform you that we cannot make the transfer to her account until you have confirmed that you know her also that we should go ahead and transfer the above stated amount to her account. The below stated account was forwarded to us by Mrs. Theresa Lawson of California USA.

Wachovia Bank Los Angeles
Account number: 9887-676900
Account name: LGMC LLC

We need you to reconfirm that you sent her also that we should go ahead and transfer the above amount to her account immediately other wise, you are required to reconfirm the following to us immediately for us to process and transfer your contract sum of $12.7M being payment for contract you executed in Nigeria.

Forward as a matter of urgency the following:

YOUR FULL NAME AND ADDRESS
YOUR TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBERS
YOUR BANK NAME AND ADDRESS
BANK TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBERS
YOUR BANK ACCOUNT DETAILS, ROUTING NUMBERS ETC.

Upon receipt of the above by you, we shall proceed immediately to Process your transfer and wire the above amount to your account immediately. If we do not hear from you till the next 48 hours, we shall go ahead and transfer the funds to Mrs. Theresa Lawson'saccount.We sincerely apologize for the inconveniences the delay in transferring your payment may have caused you and we wish to ask that you work with us to finalize this payment before the next 48 hours.

Thanking you for letting us serve you better.

Yours faithfully,

Prof. HARRIS BLESSING
DIRECTOR, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)





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