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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: "office@agent" <nwatufrancis015@gmail.com>
Reply-To: ecobnkplcngcustommercare@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2021 01:04:11 +0100
Subject: ATTENTION DEAR BENEFICIARY

ECONOMIC & FINANCIAL CRIME COMMISSION
(EFCC) FOREIGN OPERATIONS DEPT,
Feel free to call us on +234-708-375-3618 for any inquiry/information.

COMPENSATION FUND PAYMENT ORDER


I am Mr. Ibrahim Magu the new Acting chairman of ECONOMIC & FINANCIAL
CRIME COMMISSION (EFCC). EFCC in alliance with economic community of
West African States (ECOWAS) with head Office here in Nigeria. We have
been working towards the eradication of fraudsters and scam Artists in
The western part of Africa With the help of the United States Government and
the United Nations.


We have been able to track down so many of these scam artist in various
parts of west African countries which include (NIGERIA, REPUBLIC OF
BENIN, TOGO, GHANA, CAMEROON AND SENEGAL and
they are all in our custody here in Lagos Nigeria.


We have been able to recover so much money from these scam artists.
The United Nation Anti-crime commission and the United State
The government has ordered the money recovered from the Scammers to be
shared among 100 Lucky people around the globe.


This email is being directed to you because your email address was
found in one of the scam Artists file and computer hard disk in our
custody here in Nigeria and with the information gardened from this
Scam artist, we notice that you have been scammed of so much money and
have decided to compensate you with a little token to recover the lost
of your fund. You are therefore being compensated with the total sum
$3.5 Million Dollars. We have also arrested all those who claim that
they are barristers, bank officials, Lottery Agents who has money for
transfer or want you to be the next of kin of such funds which does
not exist.


Since your name appeared among the lucky beneficiaries who will
receive a compensation of US$3.5 Million, we have made arrangement to
Transfer the fund through wire you will only open a nonresident account
with the transferring bank, where you will have full access to the Account
you open where the US$3.5 Million will be deposited before final
transfer to your account in your country through your order.

As this matters, we are holding an ongoing online form filling with
the ECOBANK NIGERIA as the APEX bank in Nigeria Contact ecobank agent
now to let them inspect, detect and instruct you on how to open an
online bank where we will deposit your fund to avoid being left along

Contact Ecobank send {FUND/EFCC} to them to help them know your issue
and solve it as soon as possible, this is directed by the Ecobank
director to help the bank know the fund scheme customer and their
normal visitors.
Register with the paying bank online @...
https://ruyxzcc.wixsite.com/ecobankplc-ng
OR

CONTACT THE BANK USING THIS ADDRESS BELOW.

CONTACT: E-mail address@ {ecobnkplcngcustommercare@outlook.com}




We guarantee your safety and wish you the best of luck.

Feel free to call us on +234-708-375-3618 for any inquiry/information.

REGARDS,

MR. IBRAHIM MAGU.
NEW ACTING CHAIRMAN ECONOMIC
& FINANCIAL CRIME COMMISSION (EFCC)
FOREIGN OPERATIONS DEPT,
LAGOS – NIGERIA

Please make sure you are a scam victim to respond to this E-mail. If
this mail comes as an Erro, please ignore it and Delete Immediately


Your’s faithfully,
EFCC NIGERIA INFORMATION SCHEME



your credentials are not going to be exposed illegally
without your proof.

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