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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: onomeobi <onomeobi781@netscape.net> (may be fake)
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 14:13:52 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: RESPONSE NEEDED



From Miss Onome Obi
email:obionome78@netscape.net

Dear friend,
How are you doing today?
I hope fine. if so glory be to God. my
names is Onome obi 25yrs and I am
the daughter to the late former
minister of agriculture in Nigeria.
my dad died since 5yrs ago in a
ghastly plane crash on his way back
from Kenya, and since then life has
not been easy for me and my family anyway i
thank God that i am alive today.

Since the death of my dad things have
not been easy with us. Though
my dad died leaving a huge amount of
funds and the government has refused
to release this money because the
money has been lodged in a foreign account.
I and my family have gone through hell
even my dads brothers could not
help us and the only given option now
for us to have a reliable foreigner
that can assist us with
his/her foreign account so that the
funds can be transferred into his or her
account. After this has been done my family
and I are willing to offer 25% of the
funds to anyone that can assist us
so that we can claim our money.

My mum has been so ill and things are
not really going well with us
here. I decided to contact you because
i knew God was gong to use you to
assist me and my family from our
present predicament.As soon as we have
been able to collect this money I and
my family will be coming overseas
so we can start up a new life and
invest in a profitable business
venture i will be glad if you can
assist. There is nothing to fear about as
i have attached my pics for proper
identification as i write this I
write in tears and pains, I appeal to
you to assist me so that the
funds can be transfer I will give u more
details as soon as hear from you.

I want you to know that i have been
directed by the spirit to send this
to you, may the lord bless you richly
as you assist my family and me in
regaining our lost life back as this
is my mum's only wish right now?
and do please reply me with this email
address: obionome78@netscape.net

Best regards

Miss Onome obi.



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