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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 ahmed" <ah_ibrahim12@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: h4karabo@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 13:05:39 +0000
Subject: Urgent Business!!!

Atten:Sir
Urgent Investment:

I want to enquire from you if i can assist me to invest in your country ,i
am a civil servernt here in Nigeria, wroking as the director of sales
(PPMC)PETROLEUM PRODUCTS AND MARKETING COMPANY,i have in an account WITH
FIRST UKRAINAN INTERNATIONAL BANK in United Kingdom ,an amount of money
totaling $5.6 million United States pounds Dollars that i want to invest
abroad,i need a good and proffitng business to invest on.
I will presnt you as the owner of this money so that we can be able to use
this very money for the investment,i will present your name to my ministry
as one of the contractors whose contract amount has not been paid so that we
can get this money out for the investment.
Please, it will be fulfilled dream to hear a favourable response from your
good personality, and to join other Nigerians to invest abroad.If there is
anyway i can investin your company maybe buying of shares etc ,i suggest
that you let me
know how to invest therein.
The money in question is an over-invoiced inflated contract sum which the
contractors had long beed paid leaving this amount for in the First Ukrainan
international Bank in the United Kigdom, i have agrreed to allow you have
20% of this total sum for you kind assistance while the remaining 80% will
be used for the investment purposes.
Could you please get back to me urgently by giving me these
informations bellow:
1) You company's services.
2)Your telephone number.
3)The mailing address,phone and fax numbers.
4)How i can invest in you help me to invest in your country .
Upon the receipt of these information, we shall discuss more on how to
transfer the amount for the investment to your bank account.
I look foward to hearing from you.Please reply me through my lawyer
Barrister Nicolas Amadi
I will transfer the right of this money to you as to enable you transfer
the same money to your local bank account for the project.
Email:katechambers2000@yahoo.com ,katechambers@wapda.com

Yous faithfully,

Dr IBRAHIM AHMED..

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