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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: "FRANK ITUA" <frank2itua@terra.com.mx>
Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 04:15:18 +0200
Subject: THANKS

Good day to you.
I hope this letter meets you well, I am Mr. FRANK
ITUA I am sorry if I have intruded on your privacy
or barged in on you without your permission. I have a
very rewarding project which I think will be
beneficial to both of us putting trust,confidentialty
and most of all the fear of God into focus. If after
going through this email you do not find it
interesting please disregard it and send me a formal
response.
I was a member of the Abuja National stadium building
and organizing committee of the just concluded "ALL
AFRICAN GAMES" which was organized and hosted by
Nigeria but before now I have been a director of
sports in the Federal Ministry of Sports and Youth
Development.
We were appointed over 3 years ago to supervise the
building of the ultra modern Abuja National Stadium,
putting in place all equipments needed for the
completion of the stadium which is acclaimed to be one
of the best in the world today and also involved in
the planning and hosting of the games. This project
cost the government of Nigeria Millions of dollars.
The stadium project has been completed,all equipments
put in place and commissioned and used for the All
African Games tagged "ABUJA 2003".The accounts have
been rendered to the government satisfactorily and we
have received commendations for a job well done.
During the construction, planning and execution of
this project,as the chairman of contract award
committee I was able to make some money for myself
through contract that was awarded to Dewolfgang Gmbh
which I over-invoiced to the tune of USD18.5M with the
help of Dewolfgang Gmbh the original contractor.
All I want you to do is to assist me in clearing this
amount while standing in as the owner and director of
Vacknol Nigeria International Limited in whose name I
made as the beneficiary of the funds. Vacknol Nigeria
International Limited is an international company and
could have a company anywhere in the world the most
important thing been that it is registered here in
Nigeria as a limited liability company in line with
the company and allied matters decree of Nigeria which
I have since done, I have also in my possession some
contract document which will act as proof that Vacknol
Nigeria International Limited executed the contract as
a sub contractor under the Dewolfgang Gmbh who is the
major contractor that executed the contract that was
over -invoiced.
On the payment of this money to you as the supplier in
the name of Vacknol Nigeria International Limited
because I will apply for the transfer in this name,and
you as the director of the company. I will come to
meet with you so that we can both sit down and discuss
further,what kind of business we will enter into or if
need be expand your already existing business, but
actually I hope to establish a five star hotel and go
into real estate development as these are life time
businesses that I know are of high yeild interest any
where in the world.
I know you will be entitled to some percentage of this
money as compensation for your efforts, Please feel
free to indicate what you will take from this
amount,as this is very important to me before we
commence proceedings.
I will tell you more about this when I hear from you.I
will give you every detail of what we are to do . I
want to assure you my dear friend that with your
cooperation and understanding the sky will be our
limit. Please do contact me immediately through my private
e-mail box frank@frankitua.com or this e-mail box.

Regards.
Frank Itua



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