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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: "MINISTRY OF FINANCE" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <fedministryfinance@minister.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 09:37:31 -0800
Subject: Your accrued interest claim

Sir/Ma,

I have just discovered an accrued interest fund deposit / lodged with your name as a result your contract claim fund deposit over certain period of time which had now generated an accrued interest of $1.2M. But I caould alert the CBN to remit back this accrued interest to one of the official government account with us. now that the current government financial policy is being run on (STA) Single treasury Account system, we are bonded by law to remit all government unpaid or unclaimed funds back to a single treasury account with the CBN.

While auditing these accounts I noticed that this funds was lodged deliberately by some government payment officials with the contractors/ beneficiary name in with the intention to make a quick turn around interest money for themselves without your consent. Good enough this lodged funds had generated an accrued interest of $1.2M. over this period of time .

However, I can only order the money to be remitted back to the CBN government STA Account, only if you the beneficiary do not come forward to claim it officially as stipulated by law here.

Hence I need your to come forward as a beneficiary to claim the accrued interest of $1.2Million. meanwhile the principle sum had been moved offshore,
for further payment by the Government payment agencies accordingly.

Kindly reply me if you want to receive the accrued interest payment and note this information is suppose to be secret and you would not want to expose it, though this government official do not have wind of this accrued interest yet, so you need to act fast, waiting for your urgent response.

Regards
Mr James Okon (Dir)
FED MINISTRY OF FINANCE ABUJA

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