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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: "Mr. Donald Collins" <mrdonaldcollins000@gmail.com>
Reply-To: collinsm951@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 10:22:42 +0200
Subject: Please treat as urgent:....

Donald Collins & Co
Plot 22, Temilola Akinbode Road
Off Freedom Way
Lekki phase 1 Lagos Nigeria
Date: 12th/06/2018

Attn: Please treat as urgent:.

We are contacting you today being Tuesday with the hope that by Tomorrow Wednesday we shall commence the processing of your fund
release/transfer.

Meanwhile we are a contracted legal advisory firm attached to the Nigerian,our services are in need in matters concerning inheritance/contract payment and National Assemblies matters, the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari have noticed that foreign payment under the previous administrations in Nigeria were highly corrupt and manipulated,especially against foreign nationals and he gave order to normalize the status quo before the Nigeria in coming election.

Meanwhile our firm discovered your name in the Federal Ministry of Finance official gazette of second quarter of the year 2018 over your
payment with the Federal Government of Nigeria which payment reference number is NB/PF/CBB, so having explained how we know about your payment,we then decided to contact you in line with our assignment as contracted legal firm to the presidency.

It is true that there has being a lot of litigation for and against your payment but the truth is that some top government officials and top bank officials are working in collaboration to frustrate some foreign beneficiaries from receiving their overdue payment simply because of their selfish interest, this was discovered in the course of our investigation to verify the reason behind the nonpayment of some foreign nationals based on the petitions received by the presidency, so as a contracted legal firm to the presidency we resolved to contact the Federal Ministry of Finance before we saw your name in the official gazette as a beneficiary that is why we decided to contact you so that we can use our expertise and our connection to redeem your payment within just 9 days, we are ready to step on toes just to redeem your payment in line with the presidential directive on foreign payment, all you need to do is just to issue us with a limited power of attorney, this power of attorney will enable us to work freely with all the relevant governmental offices concerned with your payment as your representing law firm to secure your payment without hitch.

Once you issue us with this limited power of attorney we are then empowered legally to redeem your payment in 9 working days, our
retaining/professional fees is just 2% of your total sum which you can pay us after you must have received your payment in your nominated bank account, contact us immediately if you interesting to engage our services.

Mr. Donald Collins
Principal Attorney

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