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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: davidevans2004@tiscali.it
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 19:54:30 +0100
Subject: !!REQ!!

ATTENTION:

REQUEST ASSISTANCE/PARTNERSHIP .

I am the Secretary of a contract award and review
committee of the Niger Delta Development Commission {NDDC}.I am mandated
by team of colleagues to contact you.A contract already executed by a foreign
firm in Africa in 2002 was over invoiced by us to the tune of
$15,600,000.00 (Fifteen million six hundred thousand
United states dollars).

In the light of the above, I ask for your assistance
in the transfer of this excess floating fund in a
suspence account into a foreign account you may wish
to provide, for it was a category "A" contract,
(strictly reserved for foreign contractors) this
informed my request, and also that I am forbidden by
my government to run any foreign account.

After the sucessful transfer, 20% of the total sum
will go to you for your assistance. 5% of the total
sum will be set aside to compensate for any incidental
expenses incured by both parties.

More details will be given in the course of
correspondence.

Your confidentiality is highly required since I am
still in active service .

Thank you for your anticipated co-operation.


Regards,

Dr. David Evans.





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