The e-mail here is just one type of the thousands of scam e-mail variants sent out each day by 419 scammers. If you've received an e-mail even remotely similar to the one on this page or if you have arrived at this page via an internet search resulting from an e-mail that you received, I can 100% guarantee that YOU HAVE RECEIVED A SCAM E-MAIL!

This is an internet scam! Do NOT send these scammers money for any reason. [ BEGIN SCAM E-MAIL ]   From:     charlesobaseki02@konin.lm.pl Reply-To:     charleobase@gmail.com Subject:     CONTRACT INHERITANCE PAYMENT NOTIFICATION WITH C/N:  CBN/NNPC/FGN/MIN/2008. Date:     Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:34:48 +0200 (CEST) (Sun, 18:34 EDT) CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA TINUBU SQUARE LAGOS-NIGERIA OFFICE OF THE FOREIGN OPERATIONS Our Ref: CBN/IRD/CBX/021/008 Swift Code: BPH KPL PK, EMAIL:charleobase@gmail.com CONTRACT INHERITANCE PAYMENT NOTIFICATION WITH C/N: CBN/NNPC/FGN/MIN/2008. ATTENTION: BENEFICIARY, Following the protest of the International Community, The World Bank and IMF has instructed Nigerian Presidency and house of senate to pay all outstanding foreign debts especially next of kin /contracts or contractors, they warned that payment should be released to the beneficiaries forth with unconditionally this third quarter 2008.From the records of outstanding debts due for payment with the Federal government of Nigeria your name was discovered as next on the list of the outstanding, who have not received their payments. We wish to inform you that your payment is being processed and will be Release to you as soon as you respond to this letter. Also note that from our record and file your outstanding contract payment is US$6.150 (SIX MILLION ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS). Please re-confirm to this office if this is on-line with what you have in your record and also re-confirm to me the followings. 1) Your full name. 2) Phone, fax and mobile #. 3) Company name if any, position and address. 4) Profession, age and marital status. 5) Copy of your int'l passport, driver's license, or any valid ID card, for proper identification before the payment. This is to avoid any wrong payment. As soon as this information's are received, your payment will be made to you by a Wire Transfer option to your nominated bank account, and you can confirm it there after as soon is been made. REGARDS, CHARLES C.OBASEKI FOREIGN OPERATION, (CBN) (FOR DIRECT PAYMENT TO FOREIGN CONTRACTORS)   [ END SCAM E-MAIL ]

It's important to note that any real people or legitimate organizations mentioned in these scam e-mails have absolutely no connection with this scam! The scammers never use their real names. They frequently take on the identity of real people to help them convince you that they are genuine. Whatever these scammers tell you, DON'T believe a word of it!!!

This is just a small sampling of the many hundreds of advance fee fraud e-mails received each day here at 419 BAITER headquarters.

There are many different types of 419 scam (examples) but they all promise you something (fortune, job with salary/commision, low-interest loan, lottery prize, cheap gold dust/diamonds, work visa, etc.) in return for a small 'fee' or some kind of remittance. Of course, there is no fortune, no job, no loan, no prize to be had. It's just a ploy to get you to willingly send them money.

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NOTE TO SPAMMERS: My scam e-mail filtering system is pretty good but it isn't perfect. Occasionally a regular spam e-mail may get mistakenly published as a 419 scam. This is inadvertent. If you are a spammer and you don't wish to have your spam e-mail published on this website, the solution is simple. Don't send me spam.