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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: "JOHNAEN WOO" <johasendiplomat@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: johasendiplomats@uku.co.uk
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 15:23:56 +0000
Subject: THANKS

Dear Friend,

May I crave your indulgence to open this business discussion with you by an

informal letter of this sort? It is pertinent that a business of this

Magnitude should have commenced properly with a formal meeting between You

and us to enable both parties know ourselves, have a fore knowledge of the

nature of the business, discuss and acquaint ourselves with the

responsibilities and functions of both parties and appropriate shares

accordingly. But as a result of the urgency of this operation I have decided

to contact you by mail to hear from you first before planning on the next

line of action.

My Name is Johansen Woo, I am vault Manager with a security company here in

London . This transaction if handled with outmost care and secrecy will be

successfully concluded within 10 days. In the year 2003 before the

beginning of the American led Coalition war in Iraq, a deposit of a

consignment was made here in our company by the late son of the former

president of Iraq Saddam Hussein Mr. Qusai Hussein who has since been

killed.

This deposit was made by Ouasai Hussein personally and no one in my office

at this moment knows that this consignment belongs to him only me and the

one other Computer Lodgment officer in our company. We have tried to

investigate the content of this box and found out that the consignment

contains money and in cash, worth US$65,000.000.00 (Sixty Five Million

Dollars), No one else in our office knows about the content and the owner

of this consignment as this was declared as family valuables.

We have therefore decided to find a way to take away this consignment from

our office and move the money out. Hence we are looking for a trust worthy

person internationally who will come forward to claim this consignment. I

have made necessary arrangements for the change of ownership of this

consignment to anybody name who is willing to work with us within 3 working

days of receipt of the information, we will need from you, we will do the

change of ownership, so that no one in our office will ever know what is

going on and move the consignment away from here to any of our company

agents outside London to any other part of Europe where it will be easy to

claim the items. Open a Bank account and distribute the cash.

If this proposal meets your interest please get back to me immediately by

email on my(johasendiplomat@uku.co.uk ) giving me your telephone numbers to

enable me give you further details on how we have planned to carry this

operation smoothly.

Your urgent response waited

Yours faithfully

Mr JOHANSEN WOO

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