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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: "marcel dagadiu" <md_barr1@msn.com>
Reply-To: md_barr1@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 08:02:27 +0000
Subject: ATTENTION TO ALL FOREIGN CONTRACTORS/BENEFICIARIES NEXT OF KIN

FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA
PUBLIC DEBT COMMITTEE/FOREIGN PAYMENT
126 MARINA ROAD, VICTORIA ISLAND LAGOS


ATTENTION TO ALL FOREIGN CONTRACTORS/BENEFICIARIES OF FUNDS NOTICE OF
PART PAYMENT OF $5,000,000 TO ALL FOREIGN CONTRACTORS/BENEFICIARY OF FUNDS
WHO ARE YET TO BE PAID BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF NIGERIA.

Your name and your contact details was given to this committee in respect of
your total contract sum /money owed to you which you have failed to claim
because of either non-compliance of official processes or because of your
unbelief of the reality of your genuine payment. This is to alert you that
you now that you have a good news to your payment this time around.

This government have finalize every arrangements to pay you the above part
payment by using part of our crude oil money sold and supplied to the
American government recently, for which they paid us raw cash that runs into
several millions of United State dollars and which made President Bush to
visit Nigeria to solidify the both countries economic relationship.

The federal government have mandated this committee to handle this part
payment by paying the same raw cash to all foreign contractors who are yet
to receive their genuine contract sum, and to those contractors who have not
received any part payment since the completion of their contract to the
federal government of Nigeria/parastatals. This committee made up of men and
women of honor have worked out special internal arrangements with access
diplomatic courier service that will dispatch this $5,000,000 cash to you
LIVE with immediate effect upon your acceptance to this special arrangement.

The $5,000,000 cash payment are all in $100 denominations and will be fifty
thousand pieces currency notes of united state dollars which will be neatly
packaged by this committee and handed over to the courier company for urgent
dispatch to your confidential address in your country and at your door step.
This part payment arrangements is first to apply and first to
serve,because, we have limited cash for this purpose.

The federal governments have only taken care of the tickets, accommodation,
feeding and basic traveling allowances of all the officials of the above
courier company who will come live to your address to deliver this part
payment to you. If you have accepted this cash part payment arrangement as
above stated, please urgently forward to this committee without further
delay your confidential address where the courier staff will deliver the
cash package to you and also give us your private telephone numbers, your
direct fax number and your email address for easy contact
to you.

Remember to indicate to us your state name, your city name and your nearest
airport to your address. This special arrangement is to convince you that
this government is not deliberately withholding your genuine payment. Please
accept our humble apologies for the delay to your payment. Please don't
reveal these private arrangements to pay you to any body and stop contacting
fake officials who have nothing good to offer you. Awaiting your urgent
response

Yours faithfully,
DR MANZINI D.RICHARD (PH D. ECONS)
CHAIRMAN, PUBLIC DEBT COMMITTEE/FOREIGN PAYMENT.


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