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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: "Rose Okadigbo" <rose_okadigbo68@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: rose_okadigbo68@yahoo.co.nz
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 03:40:48 -0800
Subject: Sincerely,

>From Mrs Kate Okadigbo
13 Jerome Udoji Close,
Abuja,
Nigeria West Africa.

Please I am sending this letter to you through this
medium, with heartfelt hope that you will sincerely
respond passionately to my urgent cry for your
assistance, I am the wife of late Chief Chuba Okadigbo
a formal Senate President of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria and also renowned politicial and a devoted
man,whom we lost as a result of political
struggle.Since the death of my husband,I have been
highly disturbed mentally,psychologically and
physically.In fact the death of my husband has
affected me greatly, the worst of it all is that
barely one week after his death, my husband's family
members have been disturbing and compounding my
present sober mood, demanding that I should declare
all my husband assets and surrender all his bank
accounts to them.

Being a young widow and from the northern part of the
country,a christian by faith I have considered it right
to secure my future and that of my surviving children
with my husband's assets as it is done else where in
the world.

VIEW THIS SITE FOR MORE CLEARIFICATIONS:
http://www.africatoday.co.uk/jan04/jan04triumphant.htm

This is why I have decided to contact you, for you to
assist me receive the sum of Six Million United State
Dollers he secretly deposited in a security firm.
Already,I have declared all my late husband's local
accounts to them, for me to have peace of mind and
start a new life all over again, but they still
persist that I have not surrendered everything
to them yet.

I am contacting you through this medium specifically
for you to act as my late husband's Foreign Associate
who can apply and retrieve the consignment of the
funds with all documents of deposit which I will give
to you.

Though this message would have been sent to you via
surface mail, but for the worldwide scare of Anthrax
and delays. Hence, I decided to contact you via your
email address.I want you to act fast because I
want to join you as soon as you have secured the
money, to ease this mental and psychological
depression which I am experiencing since the
death of my husband.

I equally want you to assist my children and I in
acquiring a residence permit in your country,
I remain yours,
Kate Okadigbo

we will be guaranteed a secured future.I came to know
of you in my private search through the internet, for a
reliable and reputable person to handle this
confidential business.Please do not give this
information to any body so as to avoid my late
husband's relations from knowing about this
development.

Sincerely,
Mrs Kate Okadigbo.


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