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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: Frank Emefor <alimmat01@gmail.com>
Reply-To: emefor1972@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 10:19:27 -0700
Subject: URGENT CONFIRMATION NEEDED

--
Head Audit and Investigation Department
International Funds Transfer Monitoring Unit.
Office of the presidency
10th Floor Alafin Building, Wuse Zone 2
Abuja.
TEL: +234-7037950571, FAX: 234-1-882565-9

Dear Sir/Ma,

RE: CHANGE OF NAME/BENEFICIARY FOR YOUR,INHERITANCE FUNDS TRANSFER

Sequel to the complaints from funds beneficiaries over the delay in getting
their funds transferred to their nominated bank accounts in their home
countries, the World Bank in conjunction with the Nigerian government,
through the office of the presidency, have set up this committee, to clear
and effect transfer of all approved funds transfer been delayed in banks,
all over the world to their rightful beneficiaries. This committee is made
up of consultants such as, top government functionaries and bank
executives selected from different commercial banks, to look into the delay
in the transfer of all long approved international funds transfers that
are been delayed , we are serving as consultants to the United Nations, the
World Bank and the Nigerian government, with strict supervision by the
world bank.

We have looked into your records and seen that you are the rightful owner
of the funds and have also found out that, the reason why your approved
funds is been delayed, is due to the fact that you have a lot of
irregularities(mix up) in your funds transfer application file, as the
information supplied by you and your representative are not correct and
does not correspond.

Also from what we have in your file, your representative have also, sent in
a counter application, saying that you are dead and that your Approved
funds, should be transferred to Mr. James Smith of Canada, whom your
representative said is your next of KIN, they have also sent in a bank
account, with the national bank of Canada belonging to James Smith (your
supposed next of kin) for the final transfer of the said funds to Canada
and not to you and not to your country.

Your representatives, Claimed that you are dead and that your money should
be re-approved and transferred to Mr. James Smith of Canada, whom they said
is your next of KIN. Hence, this e-mail, is to reconfirm that
claim/application before we proceed with the paper work for the transfer of
the said funds to Canada.

1, If you are truly dead or alive.
2, If you are alive,to verify if you actually instructed your
representatives, to re-approve and
transfer your long approved funds to Mr. James Smith of Canada.

3, If Mr. James Smith, is truly your next of KIN

If you are alive and not dead as they have claimed,then please reconfirm
the following information as soon as possible and call our help telephone
line

1,Your full names........................................................

2,Address/Country of
Origin.....................................................................

3,Total amount due to be transferred to you In word(...............)Amount
in Letter...................................

4,Fund transfer Approvals notification number(if you don't have this, then
let us know,so we can contact the payee banker for that)this information
will enable us update our records and for verifications purposes,so that we
can clear you for payment within the shortest possible time

You have three days to get back to us, if you are still alive and also call
our help line +234-7037950571
to stop, Mr. James Smith or we shall transfer the funds to Canada, we are
using this medium to verify and be very sure that you are truly dead before
approving the transfer to Canada, as we have a lot of fake claims in our
record, and need to be very careful not to transfer funds to wrong people
claiming such.

We advice that if you are alive,you must stop any further communication
with any other person, persons or office concerning the transfer of your
funds and attention to this office for immediate transfer of your funds to
your bank account, if you are still alive, as we have had cases of people
using this means to steal other peoples funds with the help of fraudulent
lawyer, bank officials and fraudulent government officials.


Please note that, this exercise ,is meant to clean up the image of Nigeria
and Africa in general, as our job is been monitored by the Nigerian
government, the united nations and the world bank, so we are working hard
to achieve a good result by serving you
well.


Yours in office,
Emefor Frank
Head Audit and Investigation Department
International Funds Transfer Monitoring Unit
Office of the presidency
Wuse Abuja

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