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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: "Dr. Peter Ikey Obi ,CBN" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <untsfr@topservice.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 10:54:10 -0800
Subject: URGENT ATTENTION 12/11/2014

 
Debt Management Commission
Central Bank Of Nigeria
km. 42 medical road,
P.O.Box 22,
Abuja,
Attention For your ATM Card of $1.2million
We are officially informing you that we have verified on your  inheritance file, and found out that why you have not received your payment entitlement is due to the series of troubles in the Nigeria by Boko Haram, which is by far wide beyond our control. according to the information on your file here on my desk, we found that your entitlement is a total sum of $1.2million (united state dollars). we were forced to suspend all our activities for the meantime, but due to efforts of the federal government to free eight of our contractor held in hostage by the militant in the region through military means really back fire when the militant responded by attacking our payment office in Abuja, where properties worth million of dollars was destroyed and two of our security men were killed in the ambush.
The worst hit was our data storage facilities that was destroyed during the cause of the attack,due to lost of information ,we had to stop the payment of your entitlement to prevent impostor from been claiming your entitlement fund.
So, we are sincerely sorry for any inconveniences this might have caused you and we want to re affirm that the image of this board must be redeemed.
we have decided to bring a solution to this problem, according to the directives from the presidency, all payment are now made through our official banker UBA , the bank remittance department will arranged your payment through swift card payment center, VISA AFRICARDS.
This card center will send you an ATM card which you will use to withdraw your money in ATM machine center in any part of the world, and there is no maximum limit to this card,In order to receive your entitlement as soon as possible, quickly reconfirm your personal information so that we can forward your payment file to the UBA bank in due time, don't make any further illegal contacts with any false agent on this issue again.
Reconfirm your following information immediately:
1. Phone  Number
2. Address where you want them to send the card  ( p.o box not accepted)
3. Your full name
 
4. Your occupation
 
5.Your Age
6. Copy of your passport or driver's permit
Send your details to this email for an urgent attention for your payment :
untsfr@topservice.com
Note: That because of impostors, we hereby issued you, our code of conduct, which is ( 884 ) so you have to indicate this code when contacting the UBA ATM card center .
Dr. Peter Ikey Obi
Chairman, Debt Management commission
CBN
 

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