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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: "Central Bank & Foreign Debt Payment Committee" <unjcpaymentoffice@gmail.com>
Reply-To: foreigndebtspaymentoffice@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 25 May 2019 12:39:27 +0100
Subject: Change of Your Fund Beneficiary Ownership

Central Bank of Nigeria
Foreign Payment Department
From the Desk of: Mr. Samuel Okojere

Dear Fund Beneficiary,

RE: AMOUNT DUE FOR PAYMENT US$5,550,000.00 (FIVE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED AND
FIFTY THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS ONLY)

We received a very shocking letter today from your family's lawyer
Barrister Bernard Smith of Bernard Smith & Associates that you have
decided to withdraw the ownership of your fund that is awaiting payment
release and have transferred the fund ownership to Mr. Shokhonov Sergey
Ivanvich of the below address due to huge debts owed by your company to Mr.
Shokhonov Sergey Ivanvich who is a Russian Investor that owns 75% of your
company's shares.

MR. SHOKHONOV SERGEY IVANOVICH
ADDRESS: UL METALLURGOV, D. 46, K. 3, KV.148,
MOSKVA, RUSSIA.

This information came to me as a huge surprise as the Director of Payment
System but on a second thought I decided to personally contact you to find
out if this information is true.

Please kindly get back to me as a matter of urgency confirming if the
information is true as it's not the policy of the Central Bank to authorize
such change without proper investigation of the genuineness and
authenticity of such information before I will grant their request for the
change of the ownership of your funds and endorse the immediate release of
this fund in the name of the new beneficiary.

Thanks.

Yours faithfully,

Mr. Samuel Okojere
Director of Payment System, CBN.

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