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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: "Dr Musa Leo" <lmusa2003@tiscali.co.uk>
Reply-To: leomusa@fastermail.com
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 18:25:06 -0700
Subject: hi

253 IKOYI STREET,
OFF MADGRADY ROAD,
IKOYI ISLAND,
LAGOS.

FROM: DR. LEO MUSA

ALTERNATE EMAIL ADDRESS: leomusa@fastermail.com

Dear Sir,

I would like to firstly send to you the best wishes of
good health and success in your pursuits particularly
through my proposal as contained in this letter.
Before going into details of my proposal to you, I
must first implore you to treat with the utmost
confidentiality as this is required for its success
and to have faith in this transaction, for
opportunities like this only comes to one once in a
life time.
My colleagues and I are senior officials of the
Federal Government of my country's Contracts Review
Panel (CRP) who are interested in diverting some funds
that are presently floating in the accounts of the
Apex Bank of my country. In order to commence this
transaction, we solicit for your assistance to enable
us transfer into your nominated account the said
floating funds. We are determined to conclude the
transfer this quarter of the new year.
The source of the funds are as follows: During the
last military regime in my country, government
officials set up companies and awarded themselves
contracts that were grossly over-invoiced in various
ministries and parastatals. The present civilian
government set up
the Contract Review Panel, which has the mandate to
use the instruments of payments made available to it
by the decree setting up the panel, to
review these contracts and if necessary pay those who
are being owed outstanding amounts.
My colleagues and I have identified quite a huge sum
of these funds, which are presently floating in our
(Apex) Central Bank, ready for disbursement and would
like to divert some of it for our own purposes.
However, by virtue of our positions as civil servants
and members of this panel, we cannot acquire these
funds in our names or in the names of companies that
are based in my country. I have therefore been
mandated, as a matter of trust by my colleagues in the
panel, to look for a reliable overseas partner into
whose account we can transfer the sum of
U.S.$28,200,000.00 (Twenty-Eight million, Two hundred
thousand U.S. dollars). That is why I am seeking your
assistance. We have agreed to share the money to be
transferred into your account, if you agree with our
proposition as follows;
(i) 25% to the account owner (you).
(ii) 70% for us (the panel officials).
(iii) 5% to be used in settling all expenses
(by both you and us)
incidental to the actualization of this project.
We wish to invest our share of the proceeds of this
project in foreign stock markets and other viable
business till we are ready and able to have access to
them without raising any eyebrows here at home. Please
note that this transaction is 100% safe and risk-free.
We intend to effect the transfer within fourteen (14)
banking days from the date of receipt of the following
information through the fax number stated above: Your
company's name,address, telephone and fax numbers; we
will use your company's name to apply for the payment
and backdate the award of the contract in favour of
your company. We are looking forward to doing this
transaction with you and
we solicit for your utmost confidentiality in this
transaction. I will bring you into a more detailed
picture of this transaction when I hear from you.
Please get in touch either through my email address
above or my American internet fax number
1 208 723 1500.

Best regards,
Dr. Leo Musa.




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