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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: barr_p2003@tiscali.co.uk
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 16:07:32 -0700
Subject: hi.

DANIEL MUSA
CHAIRMAN SEVEN MAN PRESIDENTIAL PANEL
ON FOREIGN CONTRACTORS.
REPLY ONLY TO:d_musa@echina.com

I am the chairman of Seven (7) Man Presidential Panel on Foreign
Contract Awards And Payment Recommendation. This panel is set up and
empowered by three factors; The President Of Nigeria,Chief Olusegun Obasanjo,

Members of G-34 and the Honourable Members of the Judicial Panel, to
review and subsequently recommend for payments all duly executed
contracts awareded to foreign contractors between 1995 2000 fiscal year.

Precisely five months back,we discovered an over-invoiced contract sum
to the tone of Two Hundred Million United States Dollars
(USD$200,000,000.00).We further traced the origin of this sum and thus,found

out that it was delibrately over-invoiced by then Contract Awarding Committee

before they were dissolved. As it is now,we are very confident that the

government has no knowledge of this sum,neither does the dossolved
committee have access to the said sum again.We still have almost one year
to
conclude and it is only then that we shall give official reports and
probably refer this over-invoiced contract sum back to the federal
governments purse.

It is in the light of this that my colleagues and myself decided to
confidently contact you urgently so that we could perfectly present you
or
your company as one of the foreign contractors that executed contract
for the Nigerian government, and we shall recommend Sixty Million United

States Dollars (USD$60,000,000.00) to be paid into your account or
companys account, thereafter we shall refer back to the governments purse

the balance of One Hundred And Fourty Million Dollars
(USD$140,000,000.00). We Have carefully worked out the strategies to secure

all the necessary approvals in your name and there is no room for failure,in
that
we are still at the head of Contract Review And Payment Recommendation,

and it is only our reports that count.

If we have understood ourselves and believed with trust that we could
do this together and move this sum of Sixty Million
Dollars(USD$60,000,000.00) into your account, then forward to us urgently
the
following;

1. Your full names and address.
2. Company's name and address,if any.
3. Full bank account details and
4. Telephone and fax numbers.

We shall further discuss and agree on the percentage sharing as soon as

we hear from you affirmatively.

Sincerely,

DANIEL MUSA


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