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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: JUDE OFOMA <ofoma_jude111@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2018 07:38:53 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: From me to you


                        CONFIDENTIAL

I am an auditor with the central bank of Nigeria, after our meeting with the President/Senate  office on foreign payments matter.

After going through your file, I found out some ugly reports which I decided not to let anybody know about it based on my interest in your matter, I will like to put it clear to you my findings in your file that the $28.7 Million which you have been going about for some years now does not belong to you. But the so-called officials that contacted you wanted to front you to see if they can use you to claim the funds in question, unfortunately they don’t know how to go about it because there are some documents which are supposed to be obtained to back up their claim, to show that your company/your names was registered with the Contract Award Committee Office as an approved  contractor with the Federal Government of Nigeria.

You are going to sign 14 classified documents which will be coming from different offices of concern, also I am going to give to you the original contract number of the $28.7 Million of which the funds is going to be paid to you through the Petroleum Trust Funds Account [PTF].
 
All of these is going to be done by an Attorney who is going to work on your behalf, but you are not going to pay him his Legal Fee until your funds is transferred into your account.
 
Henceforth I want you to stop any further dealings if you truly want to receive your payment, this is because I will not want anyone to know my involvement because of my position in my country. You have to stop further communications with the Central Bank officials, IMF officials, United Nations officials, and any other official that may want to jeopardize my transferring the funds to you.
 
As you know that you have been trying severally to receive your funds but all to no avail, they are only extorting money from you for one thing or the other that will never come of which I know that even if you spend Millions of Dollars you can never, I repeat you can never receive your funds.
 
Before I proceed with you any further, you will write a letter of promise stating that no one else will know about my findings in your file, and also you will state in the letter your readiness to part to me 20% of the funds once the funds is transferred into your account and also you will assure me that you will be willing to work with me because for us to have this funds transferred to your account the needed documents has to be secured to enable the senate committee on foreign payments matters sign for the release of your funds as i am going to include your name as one of the beneficiaries that will receive his funds through a special account (PTF). You will also send a copy of your identification to me such as your international traveling passport or your Drivers License, once I receive this items, I shall commence work immediately with the attorney that will work on your behalf and all the 14 classified documents will be sent to you for your record purpose and perusal.

Reply to this email address ofomajude5050@gmail.com
 
Looking forward for your urgent responds
 
Regards,
 
Mr. Jude Ofoma

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