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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: "waleadenuga01@terra.es" <waleadenuga01@terra.es>
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 04:46:56 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: COMPENSANTION FOR YOUR PAST EFFORTS



COMPENSANTION FOR YOUR PAST EFFORTS
Dear Friend,

I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting the fund
transferred to a Swiss Account with the cooperation of a new partner from Holland
who is an international business man.Presently I'm in Paraguay for
investment projects with my own share of the total sum. Meanwhile, I did
not forget your past efforts and attempts to assist me in transferring
those funds despite that it failed us some how, Now contact my
secretary, his contact is:

Name: Mr. Steve Okoli
Email: steveokoli1@jmail.co.za

Ask him to send you the total $500.000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand US
Dollars) which I kept for your compensation for all the past efforts and
attempts to assist me in this matter. I appreciated your efforts at that
time very much. So feel free and get in touched with my secretary Mr
Steve Okoli and instruct him where to send the amount to you.

Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share
the joy after all the sufferness at that time. In the moment,I am very
busy here because of the investment projects which me and the new
partner are having at hand.

Finally, remember that I had forwarded instruction to my secretary on
your behalf to receive that money, so feel free to get in touch with him
and he will send the amount to you without any delay.

With best regards
Wale Adenuga








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