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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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Please note about this email:

Fraud email example:

From: "David White" <davidwhite070@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: david_chukwuma02@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 02:23:26 +0000
Subject: URGENT

DR. DAVID CHUKWUMA
NNPC, IKOYI
LAGOS-NIGERIA

Email: davidchukwumao2@yahoo.co.uk,
          davidchukwuma02@ummah.org

Dear Sir,

 Your contact address got to me via export promotions council, your reliability and trust Worthiness in business transaction was the main conviction that compelled me to solicit for your support in this deal. I am the financial controller of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Lagos Nigeria and secretary to the Contract Award Committee of my Ministry. In collaboration with my colleagues, we have agreed to transfer out of the Country through Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) some amount and we will later reinvest it abroad after the success of this transaction.

 This money was accrued from over inflated amount of contract. The contract has been already executed and the original contractor had collected his full and final payment. In as much as this contract was awarded to foreign Contractor and the payment in dollars, we now need a foreign firm that will present itself as the contractor for this amount of Thirty Million, Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars (US$30,500,000.00) and then the fund will be transferred into your account. Since we do not want to use the original contractor in applying for the payment, because the contractor is not aware of this over – invoiced sum. Therefore, I as Financial Controller was told to write you by my colleagues and see the success of the remittance immediately, you will however, be required to furnish us with these necessary informations.

1. Your personal phone and fax numbers for easy communication
2. Name and address of your bank, phone, fax and telex numbers
3 Your account number where this money will be lodged into and the
Beneficiary’s name, it could be personal or corporate.

 This information will enable us tender Application of Claim for the release of this money from concerned Government Agencies and it will last for ten working days. For your assistance we have agreed that the fund will be shared as follows; You as the Account Owner 20%Miscellaneous Expenses 5%Official Involved 75% Now, we assure you that all arrangement have been concluded for the success of this transaction, so if you are interested, reply
STRICTLY THROUGH this email. davidchukwumao2@yahoo.co.uk,
                                                 davidchukwuma02@ummah.org

Yours faithfully,

DR. DAVID CHUKWUMA

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