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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!

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Fraud email example:

From: "Dan Aba" <updoing1@bareed.com>
Reply-To: dan_aba_planet@uae.ac
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 01:34:56 GMT
Subject: My pleasure

From: Daniel Abana
Plot 24 Borono Estate,
Garki, Abuja, Nigeria
 
 
Dear Friend,

This is a proposal in context but actually an appeal soliciting for your unreserved assistance in consummating an urgent transaction. By way of summarized profile of myself, I am  Daniel Abana from Northern part of Nigeria, I do seriously need your utmost assistance because I am disabled from a motor accident and cann't travel abroad by Doctors order. I was an Oil consultant based in the United Kingdom, and because I helped a lot of foreign Crude Oil Companies to get Crude Oil Lifting Rights and lucrative Oil Contracts from Nigeria, I was
able to amass a fortune worth about (UK: 35Million pouds) On 21st December, 2004, I left the UK finally with my family members back to Nigeria. But due to the unfavourable political and economic climate affecting my country Nigeria, and moreso, for security reasons, I left
the money (UK: 35Million pouds) in a Security Safe Deposit Vault in London.
While we were travelling down to my home town on the 22nd December 2004, I and my entire family members was involved in a very terrible accident on our way home to our Village at Benin, at about 700 km from Lagos, Nigeria; I lost my entire family in the accident, and  myself fell into a coma since then I eventually recovered from coma, and was discharged from the hospital two weeks ago. I have no money with which to sponsor any one in Nigeria to undertake the trip for me; in any case , my extended family here abandoned me in hospital when they realized that the money which I came back with had been spent on hospital bills. I am currently living on the charity of the church.  And now, I need your kind assistance to claim this money in London and invest it in a profitable venture abroad since I can not bring in this money into Nigeria for fear of seizure by the Government. If the money is properly and profitably invested abroad, I intend to leave Nigeria permanently to join you over there.Advice!
 
Please I count on your help? and would not like you to dissappoint me.I will send you via Courrier servce the ELECTRONIC CARD KEY of my vault so that you can travel to London and open the vault yourself, then you will remove the money total (UK: 35Million pouds) and transfer it to your designated bank account for the investment. For your kind help and assistance, you will entitled to 25% of the total sum (USD35M) while you keep 75% for me in safety until I travel to join you and invest my own share that is If you agree to help me,
As you show your interest, Do send to me the following informations:
 
1. Your Complete name Street, office nor business (POSTAL) address.
2. Your Phone and fax number, including mobile
3. Your confidential email address if any.
 
TO AVOID THE KEY AGAINST LOST ON TRANSIT, PLEASE
KINDLY STATE YOUR VALID NAME AND EXACT CONTACT ADDRESS BY WHICH I WILL REACH YOU. I WOULD WANT YOU TO UNDERSTAND THAT THIS TRANSACTION IS NOT A JOKE OR A HOAX! MEANWHILE IF YOU DISCOVER YOUR INABILITY OF DOING NOR CONCLUDING THIS TRANSACTIO WITH ME, KINDLY NOT RESPOND BECAUSE I WOULDN'T WANT IN A SITUATION I WILL INTRODUCE YOU TO THE DEPOSIT COMPANY AND THEN YOU TURN AROUND NOT TO CONCLUDE THE TRANSACTION WITH ME. YOU CAN UNDERSTAND THE SET UP WILL LOOK  SUSPICIOUS AND THIS  IS WHAT IAM TRYING TO AVOID. SO DO THINK ABOUT IT VERY WELL BEFORE GETTING BACK TO ME.
 
As you confirm your willing interest, I will send you the Safe Deposit Vault Key via (EXPRESS MAIL) and I will also forward to you more details in regards to this transaction via next my email. 
 
I await your prompt response Asap.
 
Best regards,
Daniel Abana.

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