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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: chidi1958w@zipmail.com.br
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 07:54:07 -0800
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?OVER=20DUE=20CONTRACT=20PAYMENT=2E?=

Dear Sir/Madam,

With due respect, I am a director with the Federal Ministry of Finance,
Nigeria and was instructed by the Hon. Minister of Finance to find out before
the end of this month, why the contract/ claims of your fund was not credited
to your account this last Fiscal Quarter 2004, after instructions has been
passed to all various Government parastatals that all over due contract/claim
payments should be released as a lot of petitions by beneficiaries are being
received by the Minister.

Your bank details is what this office reqiures for immediate reconfirmation.
Enclose also your telephone and fax numbers respectively, Full Names and
Address plus any other informations.

In view of this circumstance, I will give my assistance to make sure your
file is in order for payment as two unknown Contractors came for the claim
of the fund and submitted account claiming that you are dead.

I wait for your urgent response.

FORWARD YOUR RESPONSE TO MY PRIVATE EMAIL ADDRESS:chidiwills@myway.com

Yours faithfully,

MR.CHIDI WILLIAMS.















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