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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: "Gambo Dasuki" <gambodasuki2001@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: gambodasuki@hotmail.com
Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 13:09:35 +0000
Subject: Contract Award And Implementation Committee (Engr. Gambo Dasuki Ale)

FROM THE DESK OF ENGR GAMBO DASUKI ALE
CHAIRMAN, CONTRACT AWARD AND IMPLEMENTATION COMMITTEE
POWER HOLDINGS COMPANY OF NIGERIA PLC (PHCN)
DIRECT TEL: +234-1-775 83 98
www.nepanigeria.org
PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
RE: TRANSFER OF US$5.5M

Dear Sir/Madam,

Although, I have not prior to this letter had any formal contact or communication
with you, however, your contact was personally sourced by me in my quest for a
reliable company, Investor, Businessman, or partner to assist with an urgent
business deal requiring utmost trust and confidentiality. I know my medium of
contact might make you apprehensive owing to the spate of internet scams going
round. But I want to assure you that this is not one of such.

I am Engr Gambo Dasuki, Chairman, Contract Award and Implementation Committee in the
Power Holdings Company of Nigeria Plc (PHCN), formally, National Electric Power
Authority (NEPA). My duty includes, awards of contracts, vetting same and making
payments on behalf of my Company (PHCN) alongside the Chief Accountants and
Directors of Audit and I have Engr. Emeka Mohammed as my Vice Chairman.

SUBJECT: After due consideration, we have fully agreed to privately invest
extensively in your country. I am intending to resign from Government services to
private business with some other officials of my Corporation involved in this deal
as partners. I have specifically been mandated to arrange with you for terms of
trade and possible transfer of the funds needed for the investment into your
company’s or personal account.

SOURCE OF FUND: This fund was incurred from an over invoiced contract awarded to an
American firm in the year, 2004 for the supply of Power Transformers and High
Tension Cables for Rural Electrification Projects in the Niger Delta Communities of
Nigeria. The original value of this contract was purposely over estimated by us the
Tenders Board Committee to the tune of US$5.5M (Five million, Five hundred thousand
US Dollars only). Now that the Original firm that executed the contract has received
its payment fully, we now want to transfer the over invoiced sum to your company or
Personal account and privately invest in any profitable form of business.
The US$5.5M has since been approved for payment/remittance among other payments that
have been made. This money is now floating in the Country’s Apex Bank, as a
redundant fund waiting to be claimed. Because of our Federal Government's new law on
Civil Service, Civil Servants are prohibited by the Code of Conduct bureau from
owning or operating foreign bank accounts, hence, I solicit your help to remit this
fund into your company's or private account pending when we come over for the
sharing.

To enable us process and remit this fund into your bank account successfully within
10 banking days from the day of your response, we need the following information
from you by a return e-mail:

(1) BENEFICIARY'S NAME:
(2) YOUR ADDRESS:
(3) YOUR CONFIDENTIAL TEL/FAX:
(4) AGE/SEX:
(5) YOUR PASSPORT

Your account details shall be required when it is due for the fund to be transferred.

Note that as soon as we receive this information, they will be used to prepare
Documents to facilitate the final processing and subsequent remittance of the fund
to your nominated Bank account. With this modality, it makes it possible for you to
act as a sub-contractor to the original firm that executed the Contract.

This transaction is 100% risk-free having done all the underground works locally for
the smooth transfer of the fund into your bank account within the shortest period. I
advise that you keep this business a top secret and rest all correspondences to
E-mail and phone only because I am occupying a sensitive position in the government
circle and also this is once in a lifetime opportunity.

Finally, I want you to assure me that you will work on my instructions and that our
own share of the money will be safe. We have jointly agreed to reward you with 30%
of the total sum for your honest assistance and co-operation while 65% will be for
my colleagues and me. And the remaining 5% will be mapped out for settling all
expenses (local and foreign) incurred in the course of this transaction Please, do
indicate your interest via the email as given below.

Best Regards
Engr. Gambo Dasuki
Email:gambodasuki@msn.com

NOTE: If however, you are not disposed to assist, kindly delete/destroy this email
in view of the confidentiality of the proposed transaction and
interest of personalities involved.

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