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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: chukaamadi@zipmail.com.br
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 22:18:14 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?From=20Chuka?=

FROM: MR. CHUKA AMADI
TEL: 00 229 847 924

Dear Friend,

I want you to patiently read this offer. I am Mr. Chuka Amadi the Head of
Delegation to the World Bank in West Africa,
currently residing in Cotonou-Benin Republic. I am the linkman between the
Organization for Petroleum Exporting Countries - OPEC and the petroleum
sector in a West African country.

Through the sale of our allocated oil quota in OPEC, I was able to make
S$52.2million through an over invoice, which I currently deposited in an
Overseas Security and Finance Company under special arrangement "Coded/Tagged
as OPEC Foreign Contractor Valuables". I want you to assist me to claim
this money as I cannot claim it directly because I am still a civil servant,
and the code of conduct bureau forbids me to acquire such amount of money.


I want to present you as the foreign contractor on whose favour the consignment
were deposited. It is on this basis that I am contacting you for assistance.
If you will be interested, claim documents will been processed and sent
to you. The
documents with which the fund is deposited will be changed to reflect you
as the new beneficiary so that you will be
eligible to collect the fund on my behalf.

I will give you 20% of the fund for this assistance while 10% to pay all
transaction costs. I am aware of the international
monitoring of all large-scale financial movements after the September 11th
2001 terrorist attack on America
and to avoid any state of financial investigation I will provide a classified
clearance paper from the relevant body which will exonerate the money from
either drug, money laundered or terrorist related proceeds.

Kindly respond to my proposal indicating your interest.

I want to assure you that there is no risk attached in this transaction.


Expecting your response

MR. CHUKA AMADI



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