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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "Engr Sam" <engrsam002@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: oduuba1@o2.pl
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 16:22:40 +0000
Subject: BUSINESS ASSISTANCE

BUSINESS ASSISTANCE


I am Engr. Micheal Uba
Federal Ministry of Sports and Youth Development,
Federal Secretariate,
Gariki, Abuja, Nigeria,

Dear Freind

I was a member of the Abuja National stadium building
and organizing committee of the concluded "ALL AFRICAN
GAMES" in 2003 which was organized and hosted by
Nigeria but before now I have been a director of
sports in the Federal Ministry of Sports and Youth
Development.

We were appointed over 5 years ago to supervise the
building of the ultra modern Abuja National Stadium,
putting in place all equipments needed for the
completion of the stadium which is acclaimed to be one
of the best in the world today..

The stadium project has been completed,
During the construction, planning and execution of
this project, we were able to over invoiced the contract to the
tune of USD$20,850,000.00 United States Dollars/
'TWENTLY MILLION U.S. DOLLARS'

All I want you to do is to assist me in clearing this
amount from the Ministry as the contractor that executed the project,
into your account..

To enable us commence business immediately, I would
need the following information from you if you agree
to be my partner in this transaction:

1. Your full names.
2, your current contact address.
3. Your Telephone numbers for easy communication.
4. Your account number


For your participation and being my partner in this
transaction, you will be entitled to 30% . Please
feel free to inform me if you are o.k. with this
percentage.

I will tell you more about this when I hear from you.
Please do contact me immediately.

Regards.

Engr. Micheal Uba


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