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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: Mohammed Mahmoud <mohammedmahmoudxxxxx@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2022 03:12:59 -0800
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



Attention Dear sir / madam,


Re: Enforcement of Geneva & Washington Global Agreement For All Long
Over - Due Pending Payments

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 foreign beneficiaries in compliance with the Bilateral
Charter and Agreement recently signed with the Government of the
United States, Swiss - Geneva 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,
European Union, Asia Countries, America, Canada 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. My office
is saddled with the responsibility to handle payments pending with any
Bank in the World as we have established a synergy. The origin of your
funds or Bank of deposit does not matter in this regard. Most
important is my official capacity to transmit/affect your long overdue
payment over the years as funds were generated Globally by the Member
Nations synergy.


>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 over the years.

Therefore, under this New Global Synergy 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 years 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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