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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Chief Roland Goni (DCS" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <cenbnkng@rediffmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 06:39:06 +0100
Subject: VERY URGENT ATTENTION..................202.105.138.37

In all sincerity,i know how hurt you are feeling concerning the delay and betrayal by your partners over their failure in getting the Apex bank to release to you all the money deposits registered for international transfer under your name here in Nigeria couple years ago,i also know that you feel frustrated over the heavy financial commitments you made which produced no result whatsoever,but i want to tell you without any contradiction whatsoever,that we are ready to release to you every single money deposits made under your name here in Nigeria because they still existence,and will be released to you if you do exactly what i have proposed that you do,which is that you apply for a new copy of a foreign payment application form (FPA form A1),receive,fill out,sign and return same back to the Consolidated Accounts Department with the application fee of one hundred dollars only,and i must tell you why..
 
The reasons why you must fill out the form before any payment can be made to you from here are as follows:
 
1. To legalize and consolidate all the funds for international transfer
2. For the purpose of providing you with a new Payment Verification Number-PVR Number
3. To enable you receive a new security clearance code number against money laundering and sponsorship of terrorist organization as advised by the United States.
4. To enable you receive a copy of an international payment certificate,and also
5. To make it possible for all deductions of taxes etc,to take place.
6. To give me the confidence that you are with me and do really trust me.
 
Without you filling out this form,no one,i repeat,no one,bank,banker or even the central bank or the Consolidated Accounts Department can release or attempt to release even a cent to you. And to prove to you that my proposal to you is not a hoax or an opportunity to extra any kind of money from you,other than getting a percentage of the funds immediately you begin to receive payments as we proposed,i shall personally send you information of the office or department where you are to send your application to for a copy of the form,and shall also provide you with information that you may need to fill it out and have it submitted.
 
Honestly,i know it will be difficult for you to believe or understand how this is going to be done,and may be hard also for you to accept that it's real,especially after what you had gone through or experienced in the past, including how long these has lasted. But i want to tell you that getting the Consolidated Accounts Department or the Central bank to begin to release every single one of the deposits (ten million five hundred thousand, five million, ten million, fifteen million, twenty five and thirty two million dollars($10.5m, $5m,$10m, $15m, $25m and $32m respectively) made and registered under your name in this country at different times and years is not a problem to me at all once you guarantee us that we will receive our part of each of the deposits released to you as we proposed,that's all. If you can guarantee that,you will be shocked at how possible and quick the commencement of payment to you will be.
 
Like i made clear in my emails to you earlier,once you take care of the issue of the application form and return it to same office with the mandatory application/Stamp duty of one hundred dollars ($100.00) as required, i shall ,upon confirmation of the submission of the form by you,immediately make available the sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000,00) to you same day through any means of your choice to enable you take care of some of your immediate financial needs while you wait for me to do the needful for the actual installment payment to commence within seven (7) working days.
 
I have spoken to the present central bank governor,i have spoken with the Senate president,the Accountant General of the Federation,the Executive Secretary of the Consolidated Accounts Department,and the Paymaster General of the Federation,and we have all agreed to release in installment,all the deposits to you on the condition that we get half of them all. So put away your skepticism and disbelieve and let's get this done without further delay.Give me the benefit of the doubt.
 
If you want me to request the form from the CAD and have it send to you so that you can fill it out tody and have it forwarded to that office with the application fee,i can do just that and then send it to you together with information you need to do that.
 
Regards,
 
Chief Roland Goni (DCS)
Chief of Staff to the President Federal Republic of Nigeria
Chairman, Presidential Task Force on Money Laundering & Illegal Movement of Foreign Currencies
 

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