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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: "Susan Sibley" <mikeeze4real@msn.com>
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 19:24:10 +0000
Subject: TREAT AS URGENT

Good day to you,
please forgive my indignation for contacting you via this media.But i have no option but to write you this mail.I know that my letter may seem strange and might cause you to feel aprrehensive about the whole situation,but i pray God that you give it a fair hearing and render your help.
 
My name is Mike Eze ,i just graduated from the African Calvary school of Theology where i went for my Pastoral Training and degree program.Please I'm in a kind of situation here and i need your urgent help.You see i lost my mother while i was just six years old and later on my father remarried another lady making her my step-mother.So i grew up under the supervision of my step mother and i tell you she made life quite misreable and unbearable for me.My father was the former Chairman of the Oil and Mineral Producing Development Committte(OMPADEC) of the Niger Delta States in Nigeria,and also my father was a business man who happens to own some filling/gas Stations in Lagos.
 
He also owned some properties in real estate.So most times he was never really around to witness the maltreatment i was going through the hands of my step-mother.Even when i did complain to him ,she always told my father that i was telling a fib and that would make her resent me the more so i had to leave my faith in the hands of the lord.All these factors added together made me to seek the face of the lord and then i joined the seminary to be useful to the lord and mankind in general.My father died on January 27th 2002 in a bomb blast/explosion in Ikeja cantonment in Lagos while on an official assignment.You can verify my claims by visiting the following web-page, www.guardian.co.uk/international/ story/0,3604,641317,00.html .
 
I am the only surviving heir to my father and  sometime before the incident occured, he deposited a huge sum of money in my account worth $16million US dollars.My immediate problem right now is that of safety of my life,because of my wicked Stepmother.My stepmother did not have any issue for my dad before he passed away,and right now she has collected all of my father's property including the filling/gas stations that he left for me because she was the Manager before he died.She recently found out of the money my father lodged in my name in trust for me and right now she want's me dead so she can have the money also.This is the only legacy of my father left for me and she also want's it.
 
This is the reason i'm writing you to help me to secure a foreign account where i can lodge this money without delay.My training in Bible school has made me to understand that all things worketh together for good to those who love God and are called according to his purpose.I guarantee that this will be executed under legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of  the law.On your reply indicate your telephone and fax numbers for oral discussion.
If you will do it for me 30% of this fund will be yours.While the remaining 70% will be left for me.I will be coming over to your country as soon as this money gets into your account,i wish  to come to your country to invest my money and i also seek your advise as regards investment plans that would be very beneficial to me over there.
 
After your reply i will send  the deposit Certificate which my late father used to deposite this fund with the  Bank.
I will also send an attached  copy of my international passport as soon as you reply me.I confidently await your urgent response.
God Bless you and your family.Please contact me via my confidential email i.d: eze_nna_mike2005@yahoo.com  , ezemike4real@hotmail.com
Regards.
Mike  Eze     

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