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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: usman_shamsudeen <clarewilliams.b@gmail.com>
Reply-To: ushamsudeen337@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2022 22:06:04 +0100
Subject: payment intermediary

--
From Mr Dr.Usman Shamsudeen
This is to bring to your notice that I am delegated from the United Nations
To Central Bank to pay 500 scam victims $5,000,000.00 (ONE MILLION UNITED
STATE DOLLAR) each.
You are listed and approved for this payment as one of the scammed victims
to be paid this amount, get back to me as soon as possible for the
immediate payments of your $5,000,000.00 compensations funds.

On this faithful recommendations,we want you to know that during the last
U.N. meetings held at Abuja, Nigeria, it was alarmed so much by the world
in the meetings on the lose of funds by various individuals to the Nigerian
scams artists operating in syndicates all over the world today. In other to
compensate victims, the U.N Body in conjunction with the Nigerian
Government is now paying 500 victims of this operators $5,000,000.00 each
in accordance with the U.N. recommendations.

Due to the corrupt and poor Banking Systems in Nigeria, the payments are to
be supervised by the United Nations' Officials and the Central Bank Nigeria
as the corresponding paying bank is UNITED BANK FOR AFRICA .(UBA)

According to the number of applicants at hand, 114 Beneficiaries has been
paid, half of the victims are from the United States, we still have more
than 380 left to be paid the compensations of $5,000,000.00 each.

Your information was mentioned by one of the Syndicates who was arrested as
one of their victims of the operations, you are hereby warned not to
communicate or duplicate this message to him for any reason what so ever as
the U.S.A. secret service is already on trace of the other criminals. So
keep it secret till they are all apprehended.

Other victims who have not been contacted can submit their application as
well for scrutiny and possible consideration.

I shall feed you with further modalities as soon as I hear from you.

Yours faithfully,
Mr,Dr.Usman Shamsudeen
CBN FOREIGN REMITTANCE.
Contact;
ng.cbnremittencedepartment@neko2.net
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/h/k3ge1us4mdf/?&cs=wh&v=b&to=ng.cbnremittencedepartment@neko2.net>
or
usman_shamsudeen@yahoo.com
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/h/k3ge1us4mdf/?&cs=wh&v=b&to=usman_shamsudeen@yahoo.com>

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