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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: oboetejack@zipmail.com.br
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 09:56:06 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Good=20Day=2E?=

Dear Sir,

Top of the day to you my friend? It may astonish you to be informally
contacted for a pending transaction of this magnitude more especially
since you do not know me personally. The purpose of my introduction is
to bring to bear my present position and the very need for true and
solicited help with regards the transaction at hand.

I am Oboete Jack, the personal assistant to Charles Taylor, the formal
President of Liberia. He has stepped down from power under serious pressure

from the president of America and AOU and is presently in asylum in Nigeria.


Well dear friend I need your Assistance and Trust in transferring some of
the
money derived from gold excesses during his tenure into your account, because

the present government in power is making plans to seize all his assets,
and I happens to be the
only one for now that knows and with the documents of where i kept the funds.


View these websites:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/08/11/taylor.warcrimes/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/08/11/liberia.1300/index.html

The amount is USD$13.6 million, in a Security firm in Europe. All that is

needed is for me to instruct the company to transfer the funds to your
account, I will remunerate you with 15% of the total funds transferred
to your vital bank account as compensation for your assistance.

To indicate your interest, kindly provide me
your direct phone and fax numbers and all relevant information for me
to contact you with more details. All the legal information concerning this

Money will be sent to you as soon as we agree together.
At the moment we all have been confined on political asylum in Calabar ,
the southern part of Nigeria and the United State of America and International
community are struggling to try Charles Taylor in world court, for war crime.

Please if this proposal satisfies you and you are willing to assist me with
honesty and trust,
please contact me by email immediately on my alternative email box (oboete_jack1@yahoo.com)
with your full names, telephone and fax numbers to enable an immediate
contact as I have advised above.

Thanks for your anticipated cooperation.

Best Regards.
Oboete Jack.





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