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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: ten2ten ten2ten <myx7_10to10@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 02:40:05 -0800 (PST)
Subject: NDDC PROJECT: DETAILS.


Dear VICTIMNAME,

Thanks for your mail and your interest in this transaction. I will be employing the services of an Attorney to handle the legal aspect of this transaction, which gives you the full right of the claims since all documentation will be bearing your company name address.

My request for your full name and contact address is basically to use them to procure all necessary documentation to suit the claims in your favor knowing fully that as civil servants, the code of conduct of the Federal Republic of Nigeria prohibits civil servants from operating domiciliary accounts and we cannot have any account outside our salary accounts. Hence, our decision to contact you in order for us to front you as a contractor that actually executed the contract for the funds to be paid to you for the benefit of all of us.

The lawyer whose services will be employed as soon as I receive you full contact details as requested will be obtaining on your behalf Certificate of Incorporation, incorporating your name or company's name as a registered company with the Federal Republic of Nigeria. With the registration of your company/name, you can bid for a contract and upon securing the contract, the entitlement of executing a contract was offered to your company. The registration will be backdated to suit the claim, which without doubt, on application for the release of the funds will be examined and found be true and in order. The Lawyer will commence work from tomorrow morning and will be reaching you from time to time on the proceedings. As soon as I get the requested information from you, I will proceed to get the lawyer and will give you details of his contact.



There is need for this legal representation since you are playing the role of the beneficiary of the funds as we down here cannot come up for the funds for this reason we contacted you and decided that 20% of the lump sum of $49.5M will be given to you for your suppport and role in this project and.

Be guided adequately that you should as a matter of fact be on daily update to me so as to enable me update my colleagues on the proceedings and advise you where necessary.

I will like to have a copy of your Driver’s License or International Passport for our record purposes. Please note that this transaction deserves a lot of confidentiality based on its nature to avoid jeopardizing this life time project. Please feel free to contact me should you need any explanation on any area you do not understand so that so that I can give you clearance.


I look forward to your earlier response.

Regards,

Willims Oje


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