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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: "Mr. Andrew Alli Non-Executive Director" <mrandrewalligtb@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 03:17:25 -0700
Subject: True Facts Behind Your Funds Claim....

FROM: Mr.Andrew Alli
Call me on +234 7046367283




Firstly, I wish to introduce myself as a sympathizer of your
situation. We are the Comptroller of Fund Movement Terminal and
Director of Statutory Department of Inter Banks Credit Commission. My
Department is affiliated to FSA, UN, WORLD BANK, W.A.F. Our Liaison
Desk is situated at the West African Terminal 122 of CBN and in Asia
at the RESERVE BANK OF AUSTRALIA, European Terminal at the DUTCH
AUCTION SYSTEM with head office in the New York City attached to the
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, which oversees and inspects the fund
movement pre-inspection for CBN and other related ECOWAS member
states. Me and my colleagues MR. STEVEN FLOYD THOMASSON
from Northlake, Illinois USA. He is in charge of the West African
Terminal. My name is Mr.Andrew Alli from Queensland, Australia. In view
of my position as introduced and explained above, I have this
privileged information for you out of sympathy to save your fund from
a big problem, which will ruin your fund payment at your bank by the
USA monitoring agents.

THE BACKGROUND OF THIS REASONS It may interest you to know that fund
transfer irregularities and misconduct of huge sums of money out of
Nigeria during the Military administration of the late General Sani
Abacha has created suspicions on any movement of large amount, which
is to be routed through Nigeria.

For this reason, the new House of Government under the leadership of
Senator David MARK (New Senate President) has formed a committee on
Finance/Economic matters. This Committee was mandated to deliberate on
all fund movement above $5,000,000.00 USD and also to recover all
suspected funds.Consequently, our organization has been mandated to
assist to monitor all fund movement out of Nigeria. Since our
establishment, the sum of $18 billion dollars has so far been
recovered.We execute the pre-investigative formalities and all
statutory requirements around the world.

The purpose is to monitor, pre-inspect,recommend or defer your fund
movement or seizure of the fund at your bank or on transit or cable.
Fortunately, our Terminal in New York has been monitoring the routing
of your fund for seizure. I became sympathetic to you for such attempt
to carry on. Hence, I decided to contact you privately in order to
advice you, which will enable you, receive the fund successfully
without any seizure or threat on the fund.

Therefore, this letter is highly confidential and top secret. For this
reason, you must not inform anybody about this letter or my contact
with you. You must keep my relationship with you to be topped secret
and highly confidential. If
you can follow my advice and guidance, I will inform you the only way
out for the dispatch of your fund peacefully without any seizure by
either your bank or the US Monitoring Agencies to know.

But if you ignore my advice, your fund movement by bank transfer will
surely hit a brick wall and you will keep spending money and time
with energy and without any success until you forfeit the whole
amount, which will be deferred at that time for a seizure when the
Monitoring Unit will adopt the motion for seizure. The September 11th
2001 bombing of the WTC in USA has compelled a strict monitoring and
checks on all huge sums of money around the globe.For this reason,
the security Network in USA has requested us here in Nigeria to
investigate your fund, which has been routed for transfer according to
the following:

1. The real source of your fund.
2. Your funds background on Foreign Bills of entries.

In pursuit of that, I discovered so many anomalies, which may create
the security network for seizure of your fund. And your bank may start
asking,which may even put the bank into a big problem for suspicions
by the USA Security Network as a bank that keeps Terrorist fund.I am
writing this letter out of sympathy and I am willing to assist you and
avoid any danger to the successful conclusion. In order for me to help
you, the following are my conditions:

1. You must keep my relationship with you highly secret/confidential.
2. You must not expose all the above information to anybody.
3. You must be willing to act fast on any information, directives and advice
from me.

But if you expose this information, I will be compelled to do the
right report and in that case, you will blame yourself. The method for
you to receive this fund is by cash at your doorstep, which I and MR.
STEVEN FLOYD THOMASSON will deliver to you at your address.

Further details on this arrangement will be furnished to you as soon
as I have received your comments to carry on. By then, I will be in a
good position to explain to you more on how to carry out the mission.

As soon as I receive your response, First i will scan and send you my
united nations diplomatic passport and I will give you more on the way
of such arrangements and I will also inform you our

percentage that you will be required to give us as soon as we have
handed over the fund to you at your address.Therefore, further
details will be furnished to you and my identity will be forwarded to
you as soon as I receive your reply.

Yours Sincerely,

Mr.Andrew Alli.

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