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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: Abelmar <abelmar@edsonqueiroz.com.br>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 12:27:59 -0200
Subject: ACQUISITION OF PROPERTIES


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Dear Friend,

ACQUISITION OF PROPERTIES

I write to inform you of my desire to buy landed properties in your country
on behalf of the Director of Contracts and Finance Allocation of the
Ministry of Works and Housing in my country.Considering his very strategic
and influential position, he would want the transaction to be strictly as
confidential as possible. He further want his identity to remain undisclosed
at least for now, until the completion of the transaction. Hence our desire
to have an overseas agent.

The deal in brief is that the funds with which to carry out our proposed
investments in your country is presently in a security firm in the Europe
and we need your assistance to ship or transfer the funds to you or any safe
account outside your country in a convenient bank account that will be
provided by you before we can put the funds into use. For this you shall be
considered to have executed a contract for Ministry of Works and Housing in
Ghana which we will have to get the necessary documents before the funds
will be release to you from the security firm in Europe. The contract sum of
which shall run into $95.5 Million dollars. Your area of specialization does
not matter in this transaction, all that is required of you is a safe
account and your willingness to assist us acquire properties in your
country.

The payment is effected already but we just have to keep the funds in a
security in Europe because as government workers and still in active
government service we are not allow to open foreign accounts. we intend to
use our own share in acquire properties abroad. For this too, you shall
serve as our agent .

It will interest you to note that last year, a similar transaction was
carried out with one MR. CHIENCHEN YU of Taiwan but after securing the
payment approvals and payment effected, MR.CHIENCHEN YU changed his numbers
and addresses and was no where to be found on our getting to Taiwan. That
was how we lost US$25.5 Million United States Dollars. I want complete trust
from you.

You are requested to communicate your acceptance or otherwise of this
proposal via email. After which we shall discuss in details the modalities
for seeing this transaction through. If however, you are not disposed to
assist, kindly destroy this letter in view of the confidentiality of the
proposed transaction and interest of personalities involved.

Thank you in anticipation of your co-operation.

Please reply to my private email below
timkweku11@yahoo.com

Best Regards
Tim Kweku



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Grupo Edson Queiroz - Webmail


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