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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: "Mr. Rex Muka" <rexmuka@catpost.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 16:51:09
Subject: From Mr. Rex



Re: BIZ OFFER.

Sir,

I am Mr. Rex Muka the Director, Foreign Contract
Payment Department Federal Ministry of Agriculture. I
wish to express my willingness to transfer an overdue
contract sum of US$32,000,000.00 to your Company's
Account or Personal Account, through the presidency of
Nigeria resulting from debt of contract & services
rendered to agricultural development project (ADP).

This money emanated from over invoicing in a contract
awarded to a foreign firm, for supply and installation of
Agricultural Equipments and Fertilizers to Agricultural
Development Project (ADP) by the former minister of
agriculture under the military regime for his personal purse
but unfortunately for him, he was unable to transfer this
fund to his purse before the emergence of this present
civilian administration.

I discovered this amount from the manifest recently which
is still floating without any claim and I decided to secure a
payment authority to authenticate the transfer for my
personal purse by using a foreigner(like you) to apply for
the release of this over invoiced contract payment for the
benefit of us all. Your Co-operation is highly required for
this project, note that you will be entitled to share 30% of
the fund, 60% for me and 10% has been mapped out for
any incidental expenses incurred in the process of the
transfer.

This Deal is 100% covered from any form of enquiry, the
approvals obtained will be dispatch to you, informing you
extensively the progress on the transfer. You are
requested to send the following information urgently to
commence action on the transfer:

(1.) Name and Address of Your Bank (2.) Account No.
and Account Name
(3.) Company's Name or personal name and Address
(4.) Office Telephone/Fax No. (5.) Mobile Phone /
Residential Phone No:

I have successfully worked out a solution to effect
transfer within seven (7) working days. Finally, Note a
High Degree of Trust and Confidentiality is required from
both parties. Looking forward to your timely response.


Your urgent reply is highly anticipated.

Best Regards,

Mr. Rex Muka
Director, Foreign Contract Payment Dept. (FMA)

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