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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 Maduka" <abatogrino004@boxmail.biz> (may be fake)
Reply-To: abatogrino1000@boxmail.biz
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 17.53.10 +0200
Subject: INVESTMENT PROJECT

Good Day

I am Frank Maduka the eldest son of Chife Joseph N. Maduka from Sierra Leone. I am writing you in absolute confidence primarily to seek your assistance to transfer our cash of fourteen Million and five hundred thousand Dollars ($14,500.000.00) now in the
custody of a private Security trust firm in ROME the money is in trunk boxes deposited and declared as Precious stones by my late father as a matter of fact the company does not know the content as money, although my Father made them to understand that
the boxes belongs to his foreign partner.

Source of the money: My late Father Chief Joseph N. Maduka was the General Manager of Sierra Leone Mining co-operation (S.L.M.C.) Freetown . According to my Father this money was the income accrued from Mining Co-operation's over draft and minor sales. B
efore the peak of the civil war between the rebels forces of Major Paul Ngaga and the combined forces of ECOMOG peace keeping operation that almost destroyed my country, following the forceful removal from power of the civilian elected President Ahmed Te
jan Kabbah by the rebels.

My Father had already made arrangement for his family to be evacuated to ITALY with the CERTIFICATE OF DEPOSIT he made with a security firm in ROME through the aid of U.N evacuation team. During the war in my country and following the indiscriminate loot
ing of Public and Government properties by the rebel forces, the Sierra Leone mining coop.
Was one of the target looted and it was destroyed. My Father including other top Government functionaries were attacked and killed by the rebels because of his relationship with the civilian Government of Ahmed Tejan Kabbah. As a result of my fathers dea
th and with the information we got that the rebels are out for us the burden became too much for me to handle coupled with the ill health of my mother which I could not afford her a decent medical care. The unrest in Ivory Coast and the threat from the r
ebels against our lifes,made us to be evacuated to ROME (ITALY) where we are seeking political asylum, we are at present in an refugee camp ROME.

Our only hope now is in you and the deposited in the Security Firm To this effect, humbly solicit your assistance in the followings ways. you will Stand on my behalf as the beneficiary for the claim of the inheritance from the Finance Firm since the mana
gement of the Finance Firm adviced that we should solicit for an individual or corporate organization to claim the deposit for us as they cannot release it directly to us due to our refugee status in ITALY.

1. to assist us claim this Fund from the security Firm as our Foreign partner
2. to transfer this money (USD$14.5 MILLION DOLLAR) in your name to your country
3. to make a good arrangement for a joint business investment on our behalf in your country and you, our Adviser/ Manager. so we can start a new life, and seek for medical experts to take care of my mother sickness which had been of increase in the recen
t times due to stress and worry.

For your assistance, we have decided that 20% of the total amount will be for your effort and another 5 % to cover all the expenses that may incur during the business transaction, Last, I urge you to keep this transaction strictly confidential as no one

knows our where about.

Please as you show your willingness, Forward to me your full name,company name, address and Tel/ Fax numbers, to me on my , email: (abatogrino005@zwallet.com).

And I will get back to you immediately with more information's and subsequently send you the necessary infomation of the Company and the document needed in this transaction.

Thanks.

May God bless you as you assist us.

Frank Maduka.

CALL ME AS SOON AS YOU RECEIVED THIS MESSAGE.

TEL:0039.3396463456

PLEASE REPLY TO THIS EMAIL ADDRESS :

abatogrino1000@boxmail.biz
abatogrino005@zwallet.com


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