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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: "Dr. Reuben Abati" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <abatidr.reuben@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 13:13:43 +0100
Subject: Dear Friend,

Dear Friend,

My name is Dr. Reuben Abati, Senior Special Adviser (Media and Publicity) to former President Goodluck Jonathan GCFR, of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. I pray this letter meets you in good health. I was directed to contact you by the former President confidentially through this medium, as you may know; former President Goodluck Jonathan lost the recently concluded March 28, 2015 presidential election to President Muhammadu Buhari. Since the loss of the election to the opposition APC candidate President Buhari, there has been probable fear everywhere as the past administration is rightly anticipating that the current administration of President Buhari will probe all sectors of the economy including the controversial missing US$20billion from Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), which the Minister of Finance Dr (Mrs.) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke are believed not to provide adequate answer to address the confl icting reports from various sour

As a result of this development, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, instructed me to seek your partnership in a confidential funds transaction so as to move the said funds out of Nigeria, under the apprehension that the current administration of President Buhari who took over power on May 29, 2015 may probe his regime, and should that happen, then part of the said funds will be used to pay attorney fees and other miscellaneous expenses, which may occur during such persecution, while the rest amount will be invested into lucrative businesses in your country .Our goal is to be prepared financially. Consequently the total sum of $250million USD cash has been moved and also deposited with a Shanxi Security & Storage Center (Gh) Ltd in Accra, Ghana by me as the sole depositor. I therefore seek your sincere and urgent partnership and cooperation to move the funds out of the security firm as soon as possible before the current administration concludes with restructuring of all the Minist ries, Departments and Agencies

If you are interested to help in this deal, please kindly provide me with your mobile telephone number, full name and address so that we can discuss further about this issue n immediately. Thank you.

Yours sincerely,

Dr. Reuben Abati
Email: abatidr.reuben@yahoo.com

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