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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: joebenkell_111@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:22:19 +0100
Subject: RE.CONFIDENTIAL / CASH PAYMENT DELIVERY

From the Desk of Senator David Mark,
Senate President,Federal Republic Of Nigeria.
Asokoro District,Area F,Garki-Abuja.
Direct Mobile TEL: +234_8162834064


RE.CONFIDENTIAL / CASH PAYMENT DELIVERY


Attention: Sir/Madam,


I Am Senator David Mark, the senate president,Federal Republic Of
Nigeria,(upper chamber), I decided to contact you based on the information
we gathered concerning your contract/inheritance funds, which we are still
unable to pay you.


After our yesterday sitting concerning foreign matters and debts
reconciliation,we discovered through our payment files that your
contract/inheritance payment are still unpaid to you and we tried to find
out why you have not received your payment up till this moment and we
could not find out any good reason why the officials of our apex bank
decided to stop your payment and we also discovered in our files that you
have made several payment in order to receive your payment but all to no
avail.


We have summoned some of our officials like: Dr. Tunde Lemo, Prof.. Charles
Soludo,Dr. James Okuku and Mrs. Stella Dike and the rest of the
directors to query them why they have not paid you after all the time and
money you have spent so far and at the end of our query and investigation
we discovered that they want to frustrate you so that you will abandon your
funds for them to divert into their personal account for there
personal use.


Based on this we have stopped them from handling any foreign
ontractors/inheritance payments to avoid them not to tarnish the image of
our country and bank .so if you are in any way communicating or dealing
with any body or person(s) in regards to your payment, you are now advised
to stop and any money you send to any of them is at your own risk.


For the fact that your payment has been delayed for so long with us and you
have gone many ways to receive the payment by bank to bank transfer
all to no avail because of the stop order and demands of several
certificates and do
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