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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: "Rev. Father Gilbert okeke" <many.davis025@gmail.com>
Reply-To: rev.fathergilbert4@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 16:23:34 +0400 (MSD)
Subject: Attention Dear

UNITED NATIONS ORGANIZATION
INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
WORLD BANK FACT-FINDING & SPECIAL
DUTIES OFFICE LONDON UNITED KINGDOM.

Attention Dear

I am Rev. Father Gilbert okeke a senior staff with the World Bank fact
finding & special duties office. I am writing you this letter because cool
penny is better than million of dollars. It is better for one to live and
die poor honest man than a rich dishonest one. The Chief security officer
(CSO) of this organization and I have arranged with an officer in computer
section, engineer Peter Cliff has agreed to bring out part of your total
sum amounting to US$5.5 Million, why we did this is because according to
information gathered from the banks/security computer, you have been
waiting for a long time to receive your money without success. As I found
out that you have almost met all the statutory requirements in respect of
your fund settlement. Your problem is that of interest groups.

A lot of people are interested in your payment and those people are merely
doing papers works with you and that is why you receive messages from
different people every day. Also we found out tha!t some of the officials
of the parastatal have been extorting a lot of money from you with the
pretext of helping you to receive your money. I can assure you that this
may last for years yet nothing happens, if you do not do away with those
officers you call your partners, and for security reasons. Do not tell
anybody that you have your money until you receive cash at your doorstep.


The money is in two security proof boxes weighing 110kg each, which is
220kg for the two boxes. We went to four courier companies to make
arrangements on how to ship them by courier to you, we went to DHL, FEDEX,
IAS, UPS, and all said that they must open the boxes for inspection by the
customs before shipment. This is something we want to avoid because the
boxes were padded with synthetic nylon and to open them you have to cut
the pad before you will meet the buttons that you will press to open the
dial code-lock. There is no way you can open the boxes and be able to
close them again because they were padded with machine.

We told the courier services that the boxes contained film materials and
when open will spoil the materials. We did not declare money because
couriers do not carry money. Today a friend of mine who is diplomat
disclosed to me that there is courier service they use to send diplomatic
material and information from one country to another. It has diplomatic
immunity and cannot check by any customs any where in the World. The name
of the courier service is Global Security Service (GSS) I will meet them
as soon as I have your go ahead order.

The Diplomat will help me to get immunity papers, so we do not have any
problem. We have concluded that you must compensate us with five hundred
thousand United States Dollars (US$500.000.00)as soon s you receive your
money to this effect, you will send to us a promissory note for five
hundred thousand united States Dollars (US$500.000.00) along with your
identification and address for sending the boxes by courier, Please
maintain top most secrecy as it may cause a lot of problem if found
outzthat we are using this way to help you. Do not ever tell anybody about
this until you have your money.

I want to help you because something in me is telling me that you are an
honest person when we concluded this and you send our promise. We will
help to ship the final part of your money to you. Be blessed as we wait
for your urgent reply. For security reason please reply to here

Yours faithfully,

Rt. Rev. Father Gilbert okeke
E-mail (rev.fathergilbert4@yahoo.com)
Chairman, Fact-Finding & Special Duties Office

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