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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: Umar Bello <gh2668969@gmail.com>
Reply-To: ahmedbellong@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2022 09:20:37 -0500
Subject: Your urgent response will be appreciated.

Dear Friend,

How are you doing today with your Family. I hope all is well with you and
your lovely family. I want you to know that I trust you so much as a good
friend and brother, and I want to entrust a very good and profitable
business into your hands and I believe that you will not disappoint me at
the end of the business. I have a mandate from the president of Nigeria to
allocate six million barrels of bonny light crude oil (6 million barrels)
to any foreign company or individual of my choice. This amount of crude oil
is my allocated slot as a good senator of the federal republic of Nigeria
and it was given a $20.00 discount per barrel. I want to allocate this 6m
barrels of crude oil to you with your name and process all the necessary
documents in your name and favor, as my trusted friend and brother. After
allocating the crude oil to you we shall sell it to the buyers at a
discount of $8.00 per barrel and we will make a profit of $12.00 per
barrel. After selling the total allocation of 6 million barrels we shall
make a gross profit of $72m. this amount will be transferred into your bank
account as the owner of the allocation and you will send $36m to me and
have $36m to yourself. We are only required to pay for the value of the
crude oil after selling it to the buyers. Therefore you don't need to worry
about the payment of the crude oil upfront.



This is the greatest opportunity and best chance of our lifetime to achieve
huge financial success now. The good news is that we have buyers from
Singapore who are ready and willing to buy the total allocation after the
process of allocating the crude oil to you and securing all the necessary
documents in your name. I have some big oil companies here in Nigeria that
will help us in the entire selling procedure.

You should inform me of your willingness to work with me on this business,
to enable me commence the allocation process in your favor immediately.

I await your prompt reply.

God Bless You.

Yours Faithfully,



*Mr. Ahmed Umar Bello*

*Director, Foreign Operations*
*Central Bank of Nigeria*

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