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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: "success abm" <success@sanimha.com>
Reply-To: adesanya_olayinkaass@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 09:48:55 +0000
Subject: kindly Assist

Mr. Edward Oxford
Protocol Officer
Elstree Way Borehamwood
Hertfordshire WD6 1GA,London,
United Kingdom


ATTN:SIR



RE: REPATRIATION OF $30.5M



Following the approvals received by this office recommending for the
immediate repatriation of the above referenced fund and having been listed
in category "A" foreign creditors, you are by this notice informed that your
assistance is required in receiving the approved fund floating in an
offshore Payments Account in London.This is as result of grossly over
invoiced contracts
which were executed by a (Deceased) national of your country on the Oil
Refineries in Saudi Arabia.



This contract was deliberately over invoiced to the tune of US$30.5m Million
Dollars.This was a deal by my committee to benefit from the project. I have
therefore been mandated as
a matter of trust to look for a foreign partner into whose account we could
transfer the sum of USD30,500,000.00 (Thirt Million, Five Hundred Thousand
Us Dollars Only). We have
agreed to sharethe funds thus: 60% for us and 40% for account owner (you).If
you are interested,please forward the following information bellow to this
email address.



(1) Your Name/company's name and full address.
(2) Your banker's name, address, telephone andfax numbers.
(3) Your contact Tel/Fax NO

Upon the receipt of the above details,Payment will be activated by the
feeding of your data into the payment system, followed by a signal
that will be sent to the paying bank to remit funds into your nominated bank
acount within 7 official working days of receipt of the above information.
Your swift response will be highly appreciated.


Sincerely Yours.

Mr. Edward Oxford
Protocol Officer
Elstree Way Borehamwood
Hertfordshire WD6 1GA,London,
United Kingdom


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