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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: ajdav@tidni.com
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 10:02:00 -0400
Subject:

Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 10:02:13 -0400
From: ajdav <ajdav@tidni.com>
Reply-To: davaj05@netscape.net
Subject: RE;Your perusal
Message-ID: <ca5d3685c2e4391bccde288848bd34de@tidni.com>
X-Mailer: IceWarp Web Mail 5.4.2
X-Originating-IP: 172.214.71.2
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Dear Sir,

I am Mr. David Ajilo, a native of Cape Town in South
Africa and I am an Executive Accountant with the South
Africa Department of Minerals & Energy. First and
foremost, I apologized using this medium to reach you
for a transaction/business of this magnitude, but this
is due to Confidentiality and prompt access reposed on
this medium. Be informed that a member of the South
Africa Export Promotion Council (SEPC) who was
at the Government delegation to your country during a
trade exhibition gave your enviable
credentials/particulars to me.

I have decided to seek a confidential co-operation
with you in the execution of the deal described
hereunder for the benefit of all parties and hope you
will keep it as a top secret because of the nature of
this transaction.

Within the Department of Minerals & Energy where I
work as an Executive Accountant and with the
cooperation of four other top officials, we have in
our possession as overdue payment bills totaling
Twenty - Six Million, Five Hundred Thousand U. S.
Dollars ($26,500,000.) which we want to transfer
abroad with the assistance and cooperation of a
foreign company/individual to receive the said fund on
our behalf.

Moreso, we are handicapped in the circumstances, as
the South Africa Civil Service Code of Conduct does
not allow us to operate offshore account hence your
importance in the whole transaction.

This amount $26.5m represents the balance of the total
contract value executed on behalf of my Department by
a foreign contracting firm, which we the officials
over-invoiced deliberately. Though the actual contract
cost have been paid to the original contractor,
leaving the balance in the tune of the said amount
which we have in principles gotten approval to remit
by Telegraphic Transfer (T.T) to any foreign bank
account you will provide by filing in an application
through the Justice Ministry here in South Africa for
the transfer of rights and privileges of the former
contractor to you.

I have the authority of my partners involved to
propose that should you be willing to assist us in
the transaction, your share of the sum will
be 25% of the $26.5 million, 70% for us and 5% for
taxation and miscellaneous expenses. The business
itself is 100% safe, on your part provided you treat
it with utmost secrecy and confidentiality. Also your
area of specialization is not a hindrance to the
successful execution of this transaction. I have
reposed my confidence in you and hope that you
will not disappoint me.

Endeavor to contact me immediately through my
e-mail address, whether or not you are interested in
this deal. If you are not, it will enable me scout for
another foreign partner to carry out this deal I want
to assure you that my partners and myself are in a
position to make the payment of this claim
possible provided you can give us a very strong
Assurance and guarantee that our share will be secured
and please remember to treat this matter as
very confidential matter, because we will not
comprehend with any form of exposure as we are still
in active Government Service and remember
once again that time is of the essence in this
business.

I wait in anticipation of your fullest co-operation.

Yours faithfully,

Mr. David Ajilo




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