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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: DAVID HONG <davidhong62@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2021 03:31:40 -0700
Subject: From The Desk of Mohammed Mahmoud.

From The Desk of Mohammed Mahmoud.
Supreme Court of Nigeria
Three-Arms Zone
P.M.B. 308. Garki Abuja
Reply this mail to this Email Address: mahmoudmohammedxxx@gmail.com



Sir,

With this mail, I wish to bring to your knowledge that upon my assumption
of office and subsequent investigation as the newly appointed Chairman of
the Payment Verification and Implementation Committee popularly called
"Foreign Creditors Intervention Office" I came across your name as unpaid
fund beneficiary in the record of the central bank of Nigeria and other
banks that are suppose to get your funds released to you. My committee was
set as the payment reconciliation

committee to verify and scrutinize all outstanding debts owed to our
foreign beneficiaries in compliance with the Bilateral Charter and
Agreement recently signed with the government of the United States and
other member nations of the United Nations [UN], European Union [EU] and
the Commonwealth to ensure immediate liquidation of the heavy debt burden
of the Federal Government of Nigeria and other Member nations of the
African Union yet unpaid to foreign beneficiaries.

Having seen your file and my further questioning to the officials of the
Central Bank of Nigeria [CBN] and Ministry of Finance as to why your
payment is still pending reveals the gross corruption in the system. The
bank officials told me that the reason why you haven't received your
payment is due to your inability to pay for the required charges for
transfer of funds to your account. When I asked them why they didn't deduct
the said charges from your principal sum, I was given the flimsy excuse
that you never authorized them to do so. When I put the question across to
them if they ever advised you that such charges could be deducted from your
principal fund,the answer I got was no. Now, if you do not tell this
beneficiary that such charges could be deducted from his or her principal
fund, how will he or she know that such options are available for such
beneficiaries.

>From my investigation I discovered that these bank officials deliberately
refused to let the charges be deducted from your principal fund because
they want your fund to remain trapped in the bank, while they continue to
extort money from beneficiaries like your good self with some flimsy
excuses.

Therefore, under this new arrangement under my stewardship as the Chairman
of this committee, you do not need to pay any money to any official, all
you are required to do is swear to an Affidavit of credence" at the Federal
High Court of Nigeria, authorizing the bank to deduct all charges from your
principal fund and transfer the balance of funds to your bank account.

Further more, it has been stipulated in the Payment Enabling Code of
Conduct upon which this office thus Foreign Creditors Intervention office
was established that all eligible creditors like yourself should calculate
all monies have spent in the past in pursuit of their payment and kindly
forward them to us so that at the final release of your principal fund, we
shall put up the necessary supplementary claim to repatriate such
unwarranted expenses and extortion[s] back to you in addition to your
principal claim.

You should feel free to contact me on my direct mail stated herein and call
me on phone for further clarification and directives to achieve the
uninterrupted deductions and timely release of your fund as per schedule.

I am waiting for your urgent and positive response to enable me to advise
you further and properly to achieve this goal.

Yours sincerely,

Mohammed Mahmoud.
ATTORNEY GENERAL FEDERAL
REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA.,
Reply this mail to this Email Address: mahmoudmohammedxxx@gmail.com

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