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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 Tunde Lemo" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <drtundelem670@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2016 09:03:50 -0700
Subject: Re: Please Get Back To Me-

Dear Sir/Ma,

After a serious thought, i decided to reach you directly and
personally because i do not have anything against you, but your
Nigerian partners. I am a Director in charge of Wire Transfer/Telex
Section at the central bank of Nigeria, Sometime in the past your
Nigerian partners approached me through a friend of mine who works
with one of the ministries here and requested that i assist them
conclude a money transfer deal, they told me to help program the
transfer to you.

According to them, they wanted to use this strategy to transfer a huge
Amount of United States dollars fifteen million dollars($15M), the
money has been floating in the CBN suspense account since then. we
agreed that once i do this, they would give me $USD100,000.00 and give
me another $USD100,000.00 when i release the fund to your account.
When they saw that i have programmed it and your name has been
approved among the list of those to be paid, instead of giving me the
agreed deposit of us$100,000.00, they started avoiding me and resorted
to threats. I immediately deleted the transfer code of the fund, which
is only known to me because of my position, and released other
contractors’ fund and inheritance payments without yours. They became
angry. When they saw that their threat did not work, they started
bribing other officials to get another approval to transfer the money
to you without success. i want you to know that i am 100% responsible
for the delay and obstructions because of their breach of trust.

If you doubt what i have just told you, then consider what has
transpired through out your claim process, they continue to ask you to
pay money after money and at the end no result and they still tell you
to pay another fee without any result yet, they are simply wicked. Now
if you want us to work together, these are my conditions.

1. I will have 20% of the money because it is only the two of us left for now.


2. You will assist my son to open an account in your country where i
will pay in my own share.


3. It will be useless and mere waste of time and money if you continue
with any other person, so we will conclude this transaction with
utmost secrecy.

4. You will provide me with your private telephone, mobile and a
private email to facilitate easy communication between you and I only.
If these conditions are acceptable to you, contact me as soon as
possible to let us finalize, so that the funds can be released to your
account after due protocols has been observed. But if you are not
interested, i advice you to forget the fund and stop wasting your time
with your so called partners in paying endless fees.



Best Regards,

Dr Tunde Lemo.
Director, Wire Transfer/Telex Dept.
Central Bank Of Nigeria
+2347030510843

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