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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: bature_adviser101@tiscali.it
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 05:05:00 -0700
Subject: mutual intent

Dear sir,
We are sending this letter to you based on information gathererd from the
foreing trade office of the Nigerian Chamber of Commerce and industry.We
believe you are in a position to help us in our bid to transfer the sum
of Forty one million,Five hundred thousand United states dollars only($41.5M)
into a foreign account.

We are members of the special commitee for budget and planning of the minister
of Petroleum.This committee is principally concerned with contracts appraisals
and approval of contracts in order of priorities as regards Capital project
of The Federal Government Of Nigeria.With our positions,we have successfully
secured for ourselves the said amount.This amount was accumulated through
undeclared windfall from the sales of Nigerian crude oil during the Gulf
war.

what we need from you is to provide a safe account into which funds will
be transfered since government officials are not allowed by our laws to
operate foreign account.It has been agreed that the owner of the account
will be compesated with US$8.3m of the remmited funds .We keep US$31.125M
while US$2.075M will be set aside to offside expenses and pay the neccessary
taxes.
It may interest you to know that two years ago,a similar transaction was
carried out with one Mr.Patrice Miller.The president of Craine International
Corporation at No.135,East 57th street,28th floor New York.10022 with telephone(212308-7788
and telex No.6731689.After the agreement between both parties in which he
was to take 5%.The money was duly transfered into his account only to be
dissapointed on our arrival in New York as we are reliably informed that
mr.Patrice Miller was no longer on that address while his phone number has
been reallocated to somebody else,that was how we lost US$27.5M to Mr.Patrice
Miller.

This time around we need a more reliable and trustworthy person or a reputable
company to do business with hence this letter to you.So if you can proove
yourselve trusted and interested in this deal then we are prepared to do
business with you.what we want from you is that assurance that you will
let us have our share when this amount of US$41.5M is transfered into your
account.
If this proposal satisfy you,please email me so that we can advise you on
the modalities of the transaction.All modalities of the transfer has been
worked out and once started will not take more than 14 working days with
absolute support of all concerned.This transaction is 100% SAFE.

Dr.Sule Bature.


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