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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. Ayim Pius Ayim" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <sectothepresident011@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 17:19:49 -0700
Subject: Dear Beneficiary Your Compensation Fund Is Ready!!!

From  The Desk Of Mr, Anyim Pius Anyim,
Secretary General Federal Republic of Nigeria,
Abuja , Federal Capital Territory,
Aso Rock Villa.
Our Ref: FGN IRD/OMF/09
 
Attention Beneficiary,
On behalf of THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA, I Mr,Anyim Pius Anyim, Secretary General Federal Republic of Nigeria wishes to pass this message across to you.
 
 
Records show that you are among one of the individuals and organizations who are yet to receive their overdue payment from Overseas which includes those of Lottery, Compensation, Contract payment and Inheritance. Through our Fraud Monitoring Unit we have also noticed that for few months ago you have been transacting with some impostors and fraudsters who have been impersonating the likes of Mr. Tunde Sulaiman of Chevron, Mr. John J. McCloy of World Bank, Mr. Ban Ki-moon of United Nations, President Goodluck Jonathan of Federal republic of Nigeria, Barrack Obama of United States, Sir Win Bischoff of foreign exchange, Mrs.Farida Waziri of EFCC, Kelvin Young of HSBC, Ben of FedEx, Dr. Usman Shams uddeen and some impostors claiming to be working with The Federal Bureau of Investigation etc.
 
 
The Cyber Crime Division of the FBI in conjunction with: THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA , Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and Metropolitan Police [Scotland Yard] England gathered information from the Internet Crime Complaint Center (ICCC) formerly known as the Internet Fraud Complaint Center (IFCC) of how some people have lost outrageous sums of money to these impostors. As a result of this we hereby advise you to stop communication with any one not referred to you by us as we have investigated these bodies and have found out that they were impostors and have hence directed beneficiaries to rightful claim centers
 
 
The Federal Republic Of Nigerian has agreed to compensate scammed victims from all part of the world with the average sum of USD$850,000.00 for self support irrespective of the amount lost in the act. We guarantee 100% receipt of your payment, because we have perfected everything in regards to the release of your compensation fund of USD$850,000.00 to be 100% risk free and free from any hitches as it’s our duty to protect you. (This is as a result of the mandate from Nigeria Government to make sure all debts owed to people which includes Inheritance, Contract, Lottery, Compensation etc are been cleared for the betterment of the current economic status of the nation and its citizens as the new administration has believed “Our Time for Change has come” because “Change can happen To redeem your compensation fund, You are therefore advised to contact Mr.Douglas Nnamdi(Lawyer) our co coordinator/payment officer in Nigeria, via e-mail address and telephone contact below:
 
 
Douglas Nnamdi (ESQ)
Email: legalmatters@yahoo.cn
Phone: +234 704 291 2972.
 
 
You are further advised to send the following details to him through
His above email: full Names... telephone number.... Postal
Address...Scanned copy of your international passport, driver’s
License or any form of identification for our perusal, records update
and reference. I apologize on behalf of the federal republic of Nigeria for any delay
you might have encountered in receiving your fund in the past.
 
 
Hope to hear from you, as soon as you get in contact with Mr.Douglas Nnamdi and successfully receive of your compensation fund. Making the world a better place! Signed and endorsed.
 
 
Note: Disregard any email you get from any impostors or offices claiming to be in possession of your funds, you are hereby advice only to be in contact with Mr.Okpetsagha Akerowan Believe advocate assigned to you by the federal republic of Nigeria for the payment of your compensated funds who is the rightful person to deal with in regards to your payment worth USD$850,000.00 thousands and forward any emails you get from impostors to this office via the above email and telephone number so we can act upon it immediately. Help stop cyber crime.
 
 
Yours Faithfully,
Anyim Pius Anyim (Announcer)
Secretary General Federal Republic of Nigeria

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