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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: "The Presidency Foreign Debt Payment Office In-conjunction With UN, IMF & Central Bank of Nigeria" <unimfpaymentmonitoring.ng@gmail.com>
Reply-To: officegovcenbankng@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2023 06:40:12 +0000
Subject: WHY YOUR FUNDS HAS REMAINED UNPAID, PLEASE KINDLY RECONFIRM YOUR
CONTACT ADDRESS, PHONE NUMBER AND YOUR PERSONAL ID FOR THE PROPER FILLING,
AUTHENTICATION, AND PROCESSING OF YOUR PAYMENT AND PART PAYMENT RELEASE OF
US$2.5 MILLION YOUR UNPAID FUNDS.


*Office of the Governor*
*From The Desk of: Mr Godwin Emefiele,*
*Gov. Cenbankng*

Dear Beneficiary,

In the course of my verification of foreign beneficiaries unpaid funds, I
discovered that your payment was not properly filed to my office. It's
either that your local representative or whoever is assisting you here to
facilitate the release and accomplishment of your funds, did not properly
file the right and necessary genuine paperwork that would accomplish the
release of your funds. Or that they may have failed to use the funds that
you may have sent and trusted to them for their selfish and
personal use, thereby leaving you frustrated with the non release of your
funds till date.

In order to finally accomplish the release of your unpaid funds, you are
therefore advised to get back to me as a matter of urgency and pick up your
payment processing form to enable my office as the Governor of Central Bank
of Nigeria to deal with you directly as the Governor Central Bank of
Nigeria and ensure that your funds are finally released under my strict
supervision.

You are therefore advised as a matter of urgency to send a copy of your ID
for your payment authentication and also send your direct phone and fill
the attached payment processing form for the reprocessing and release of
your funds for immediate payment release.

Finally you are advised to disassociate yourself from any further
communication with those that are pretending to be helping but have ended
up scamming and stealing from you. Hence they are only impostors and not
genuine government officials in position to release your funds. Only the
genuine Central Bank of Nigeria in my position and authority as the
Governor of the CBN has the power and authority to release your funds be
warned and do not ignore this advice for your own interest and safety of
your funds.

Thanks and be informed that as soon as I receive the required information,
your payment would be processed and released without further bureaucracy in
order to put an end to your long unpaid funds and looking forward to your
urgent response.

Yours faithfully,

Mr Godwin Emefiele
Governor Central Bank of Nigeria.

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