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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: "Nikiema Kwame." (may be fake)
Reply-To: <nikikwame@nate.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 09:27:40 -0700
Subject: From Desk Of Debt Settlement Center, Ouagadougou Burkina Faso

From: Nikiema Kwame.
(Debt Settlement Center, Ouagadougou Burkina Faso)
 
 
 
 
Attention
 
 
We have been directed to contact you by his Excellency the president,
federal republic of Nigeria, to discuss possible modalities that will
be instituted in order to offset/settle your contractual entitlement
which payment has been approved several time without your money being
remitted to your accounts.
 
 
We have been well briefed by ministries/ parastatals that were
directly and indirectly involved in the processing and settlement of
your contractual entitlements, the reason behind your inability to
actually secure the releasing of your contractual entitlements to your
account is because of the existence of unknown persons who has
continually posed as authentic CBN and government officials thereby
making it virtually impossible for you to secure the release of your
contractual entitlements.
 
 
The president of the federal republic of Nigeria, in his genuine
effort to eliminate corruption at the highest level during his visit
to London in the beginning of this year had an agreement with the
prime minister and also some financial institution to assist the
Federal republic of Nigeria in scrutinizing the payment of all her
external contractors whose debts runs into millions of dollars during
the military regime of their past rulers. It was during this meeting
we discovered that several banks in Europe has been used to deceive
and defraud unsuspecting contractors that their money has been sent to
them.
 
 
It was after his visit that this body (Debt Settlement center) was
constituted to take up the immediate reconciliation, verifications/
settlement of all categories of debt owed to foreign contractors by
the federal government of Nigeria. Funds has been made available for
this very purpose and this body has just received further boost up to
the tune of us$700.000.000.00.from money recovered by the federal
government of Nigeria from the Abacha's loot which was made possible
by the intervention of the Prime mister and other E.U member states.
Your name and that of 10 other contractors from the United States of
America, Malaysia, Germany, Austria and the France has just been sent
to us during this present scheme so that we can contact you and
discuss new modalities of payment which the federal government of
Nigeria has worked out.
Send your bank account details, telephone and contact address so that
we can move on with the process.
 
Account name:.........................
Bank name:......................... .......
Account Number:................
Swift Code.......................... ........
 
Make any corrections and give us further details of your contract
records for authentications to ensure a swift action to be taken in
line with the releasing of your contractual sum.
 
 
Sincerely.
 
 
Nikiema Kwame.
 
 
Co-ordinator, Ouagadougou Burkina Faso..
 

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