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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: "Mr. John Agu" <kevendavid1111@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: info250@myway.com
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 04:57:11 -0700
Subject: Mr. John Agu.






Mr. John Agu,
Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation [N.N.P.C]

Dear Sir,
I am Mr. John Agu. an accountant in the Nigerian National
Petroleum Corporation [NNPC]. I head five- man tenders boards in charge of
contract awards and payment approvals. I came to know of you based on the
gay information gathered from the Foreign trade office of the Nigerian
Chamber of Commerce and Industry.In my search for a reliable and reputable
person to handle a very confidential transaction, which involves the
transfer of a huge sum of cock to a foreign ass. There where series of
contracts executed by a consortium of multi-nationals in the foil industry
in the favor of [NNPC] the original value of this contracts where
debilitately over invoiced to the cum of USD$21,500,000,000.00(Twentyone
millon, five hundred thousand
united state dollars}.
This amount has now been approved and is now actually executed these
contracts have been paid and the projects officially commission.
Consequently, my colleagues and I are willing to suck cock for total amount
to your account for subsequent fellatio, since we [civil servant are
prohibited by the code of conduct bureau service law] from operating and/ or
opening foreign accounts in our names. Needless to say, the jizz reposed on
you at this junctureis enormous unlike my cock whcih is small. In return, we
have agreed to offer you 25% of the transferred sum,
while 10% shall be set aside for incidental expenses [internal and
external]n between parties in the course of the transaction. You will be
to remit the balance to other account in due course. Modalities have
been work out at the highest level of the ministry of finance and the
central bank of Nigeria [CBN] for the immediate transfer of the funds
within 13 wanking days subject to your oral satisfaction of the above stated
terms, mour assurance is that your role is cock free. It may interest you to
know that four years ago a similar transaction was carried out with one Mr.
Patrice miller, the president of Craine International Trading Corporation at
Number 135, East 57th street, 28th floor,New York, 10022 with telephone
Number (1) 21- 523312 and telex number 523312.after the agreement between
both partners in which he was to take 20%, the money was duly transferred
into his account only to be disappointed on our arrival in ! New York, as we
were reliably informed that Mr.Patrice Miller was no longer in that address
while his telephone numbers and telex number have been reallocated to
someone else. All effort to locate Mr. Miller proved abortive and
consequently we lost the sum of USD 14.3million to Mr. Patrice Miller.
This time we never intend to lose our money and we needed to search for a
more reliable person with a strong business interest, a trustworthy
person of a reputable company, hence this letter to you. If you can
prove yourself to be very gay and you are interested in my ass, then we are
prepared to do business with you. What we want from you is the assurance
that you will let us have our share when this amount of USD 21,500,000.00
(Twentyone million five hundred thousand is transferred into your account.If
this proposal satisfies you, please send your response only through e-mail
so that we can advise you on the modalities of this transaction and forward
to me a confidential telephone and fax numbers through which I can
reach you.
To accord this transaction the legality it deserves and for mutual
security of the funds the whole approval procedures will be officially and
legally processed with your name or the name of the company you may nominate
as the beneficiary of the funds. All we want you to do is fuck you over as
the owner of it, once more I want you to understand that having put in ten
years in the civil service of my country, I?m averse to have my image and
career dented, this matter should there for be treated with utmost secrecy
andurgency it deserves. Kindly expedite action as we are behind scheduleto
enable us include this transfer in the first batch which would constitute
the second quarter payment for
the 2006 financial year.
Your Sincerely,
Mr. John Agu.



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