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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: mikeobioha33@tiscali.co.uk
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 02:47:42 +0200
Subject: URGENT AND BUSINESS RE;LATIONSHIP




































Dear Sir/Madam




CONTACT ME VIA MY PRIVATE EMAIL , mike_obioha9@yahoo.co.uk




I am MIKE OBIOHA the vault officer of a financial firm, I am writing this
letter to solicit for support and assistance from you to carry out a business
of mutual benefit and concern. I know you would be wondering why I am writing
you with a request such as these but I only urge you to read on.
Pending in our vault is a numbered time fixed deposit of belonging to Mr.
Kyle Floyd of Triple G limited. Valued presently at $8.34 Million dollars,
Mr. Floyd lost his life in a fire disaster in his personal home, which left
the entire community in a state of shock and 11 people dead. I am sorry
if this news is too traumatic for you but I was only trying to paint the
picture to you. His time deposit has been re-run twice and inline with the
contractual agreement entered with him, we cannot re-run it again, efforts
has since been exhaustively made to source out his kin but to no avail.

Information reached me that the firm wants to return the account as dormant
thereby paving way for the fund to be remitted into the governments confine
for arms purchase, at this juncture I had to stampede that possibility by
writing to debunk all efforts for the government to seize the funds, hence
I am asking you to stand in as the next of Kin to Mr. Floyd and the funds
shall be transmitted to you, we shall share the funds in the ratio of 50-40,
while 10% will be for unprecedented expenses incurred by both parties in
the course of this transfer.
If you agree to this transaction kindly send your response via email, I
anticipate to have a wonderful working relationship with you.

Respectfully,


MIKE OBIOHA


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Broadband from an unbeatable £15.99!

http://www.tiscali.co.uk/products/broadband/home.html?code=SM-NL-11AM




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