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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: chief sani musa <sani_musa02@haveringmail.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 04:06:50 +0100
Subject: Good Day Sir.,!!!

Chief Sani Musa
Efax:1-270-447-5664
Fax:234-1-7594220
Email:sani_musa@outgun.com
Dear Sir,

REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE: _STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
I am Chief Sani Musa, the chairman of contract
award and review committee set up by the Federal
Government Of Nigeria under the new civilian
dispensation to award new contracts and review
existing ones. I came to know of you in my search for
a reliable and reputable person to handle a very
confidential transaction, which involves the transfer
of a huge sum of money to a foreign account. There
were series of contracts executed by a consortium of
multi-nationals in the oil industry in favour of
N.N.P .C. The original value of these contracts were
deliberately over invoiced to the sum of
USD$41,500,000.00 (Forty-One Million,Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars). This amount has now been approved and is now ready to be transferred, being that the companies that actually executed these contracts have been fully paid and the projects officially commissioned.
Consequently, my colleagues and I are willing to
transfer the total amount to your account for
subsequent disbursement, since we as civil servants
are prohibited by the code of conduct bureau (Civil
Service Law) from operating and/or opening foreign
accounts in our names. Needless to say, the trust
reposed on you at this juncture is enormous, in
return, we have agreed to offer you 30% of the
transferred sum, while 10% shall be set aside for
incidental expenses (Internal and External) between
both parties in the course of the transaction. You
will be ma ndated to remit the balance to other accounts in due course.
Modalities have been worked out at the highest level
of the ministry of finance and the Central Bank of
Nigeria for the immediate transfer of the funds within
10 working days subject to your satisfaction of the
above stated terms. Our assurance is that your role is
risk free.
To accord this transaction the legality it deserves
and for mutual security of the funds, the whole
approval procedures will officially and legally be
processed with your name or the name of any company
you may nominate as the bonefide beneficiary.
Once more I want you to understand that having put in
over twenty five years in the civil service of my
country, I am averse to having my image and career
dented. This matter should therefore be treated with
utmost secrecy and urgency It deserves.
Please, you should signify your intention to assist
by sending me an email: sani_musa@outgun.com so that I can brief you further. I want to assure you that this
business proposal is 100% risk free as we have done
our home work properly. I quite believe that you will
protect our interest by taking this deal strictly
confidential, as we are still in government service,
which we intend to retire from.
Kindly expedite action, as we are behind schedule,
to enable us include this transfer in the first batch
which would constitute the third/Final quarter payments for the 2004 financial year.

Thanks and god bless.

Chief Sani Musa


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