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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: "Good Shepheredchamber" <shepheredchambers@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mhajia440@sify.com
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 16:43:00 -0800
Subject: Re: My love for you

Dear Friend,

Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship
with you, l am Ms. Blessing Okafor, Chief Accountant from ALL STATE BANK,
Inc l hope that you can be reliable and reputable person that l can trust so
as to handle a confidential business transaction that requires huge transfer
of $12.9M into your account.

This fund belongs to late ( Rtd ) MSS, PSE, Abide Luke Apreiz. He is the
former MA to Chief of Oil and Gass company. The former ADC to former head of
state and EC-IN-C for defense adviser Harare, and so on. Who died on 28may
2005 on a ghastly road traffic accident along Ilesha (lloko) Ife road, with
his family living no one behind. His lovely wife Mrs. Esther A.L.Apreiz,
with two sons’ and a daughter. More reason why l have contacted you is
because our late client died with his entire house hold and l can not issue
application of claim without you as his foreign business associate and
partner. As l do not what this fund to be confiscated by Government of my
country.

I therefore made further investigation in the course of my accounting
auditing l discovered that late ( Rtd ) MSS, PSE, Col Abide Luke Apreiz did
not declare any kin or relations in all his official documents, including
his deposit paper work in our bank. This sum of money has carefully been
fixed in safe-keeping, No one will ever come forward to claim it, According
to Nigeria Law, at the expiration of 5 (five) years, the money will revert
to the Government if nobody applies to claim the fund.

His investments: - A fund release officer from Nigeria government 1991-2001,
partner with Transworld Security, Major share holder in Ecobank, UBA bank,
Ocean bank, First Atlantic Financial House, partner with Oil and
petrol-chemical company. You are to claim this fund as the next of his KINS
and more also as his foreign business partner/business associates to this
fund.

Do know that l want us to claim and invest this fund into your country as
you are to have a share of $4,500.000.00 as an account owner in which this
fund are to be transferred into and 5%for any expense that you are going to
incurs in cost of this fund transfer, why you are to hold on the remaining
$8,400,000.00 will be for me till my arrival to meet with you, after the
successful transfer of the fund to you. As i am yet unmarried, single lady l
am. l am from the easthern part of Nigeria West Africa.

If this proposal satisfies you to get started with send me your contact
address fax, cell telephone numbers, as all modalities has be worked out and
once started it will take 14 working days with the absolute support of all
concern treat as urgent and very confidential ln God we trust,my reagrds to
you.

Ms. Blessing Okafor
Chief Accountant
ALL STATE BANK, INC.
Plot 169B
Oyin Jolayemi Street,
Victoria Island
msblessingokafor@sify.com


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