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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: "Ngozi Udiath" <ngoziuditah4400@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: ngoziuditah0440@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 18:00:22 -0700
Subject: Re: lnvestement Opportunity

Dear Friend,

Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship
with you, l am Ms. Ngozi Uditah, Chief Accountant from ALLSTATE TRUST 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 United Kingdom Pounds ( GBP) 5.9M into your account.This fund
belongs to late Chief 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 28 may 2001 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
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.

Source of Fund: - A fund release officer from Nigeria government 1987-2000,
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 United Kingdom Pounds ( GBP)2,500.000.00 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 United Kingdom Pounds ( GBP)3,400,000.00 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. As the government of my country are
against us, we have be given a mandiate to close our operation, that is
eight months time to come.

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. Ngozi Uditah
Chief Accountant
ALLSTATE TRUST BANK, INC.
Plot 1675B Oyin Jolayemi Street,
Victoria Island.
RC:NO:118864



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