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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 Ndu" <frankndu@msn.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 14:09:57 +0000
Subject: DEAR FRIEND,

DEAR FRIEND,


I AM MR FRANK ISIBOR. FINANCIAL CONTROLLER NNPC,IKOYI LAGOS- NIGERIA
ATTENTION:THE PRESIDENT/CHAIRMAN PROPOSAL FOR TRANSFER OF NINE MILLION, FIVE
HUNDRED THOUSAND USDOLLARS (US$9.5M) TO YOUR ACCOUNT.Your contact address
got to me via export promotions council, your reliability and
trustworthiness 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 Nigerian 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 UNION BANK OF NIGERIA PLC (UBN) some amount and we will
later reinvest it abroad after the success of this transaction. The amount
involved is Nine million, Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars (US$9,500,000.00)

This is as a result of over inflated amount of a contract.The contract has
been already executed and the original contractor hadcollected his full and
final payment. In as much as this contract was awarded to a Foreign
Contractor and the payment in dollars, we now need a Foreign firm that will
present itself as the contractor for this amount of Nine Million, Five
Hundred
Thousand US Dollars (US$9,500,000.00) and then the fund will be transferred
into your account.Since we do not want to use the orginal contractor in
applying for the payment, because the Contractor is not aware of this
over-invoiced sum.

Therefore, I as the 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 information
1. Your personal phone and fax number 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
Beneficiaries name.
It could be personal or corporate. These information will enable us put
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% Officials Involved 75% Now, we assure you that all
arrangements have been concluded for the success of this transaction, so if
you are interested,kindly expidate immediate
action by sending to me the above mentioned datas.
Yours faithfully.

MR FRANK ISIBOR
Please do reply me on this e-mail address (frank_isi1@box.az)


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