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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: Sani Mustapha <sanimust@boursomail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 09:51:34 -0000
Subject: Associate




Dear Friend,

This mail will definately come to you as a surprise, but
not to worry as i shall explain my person and the reason
for writing. I am Mustapha Sani Abacha, son of the former
late head of state of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,
General Sani Abacha.

Presently, my family has been going through trying moments
after the death of our father on June 8th 1998 especially
from this present government who are bent on recoverying
all sums of foriegn currency that my father had abroad in
foreign accounts. Due to this same issue, my mother has
been banned from travelling outside of Nigeria and my
elder brother, Mohammed Abacha is right now a political
detainee and under house arrest, and my immediate older
brother Abba is now been held in a prison in Geneva
Switzerland facing trial by the swiss authorities on
chargers of transfering/laundering $700,000,000.00.

After due consultations with my mother and members of my
family, we decided that I should lead the quest to get a
foreign assistance to help in securing these funds in
foriegn accounts and othersthat my late father had
deposited in a security vault, amounting to $50.8m (Fifty
million eight hundred thousand United States Dollars),
before this present government gets wind of them and clamp
down on the money. It is on the basis of this that I am
reaching out to you, and soliciting your candid support
and assistance to secure the funds.

In the event that I can trust you to render the family
this support, we shall arrange a meeting to discuss the
issues involved in claiming the fund, your reward, and the
documents relating to the money in question and your
advice on investment opportunities.

Please let me state that we need a high level of security
in the process of this transaction, therefore, let us
maintain it so that the information concerning the
security vault does not get into unwanted ears. Please for
the purpose of this project, communications will be
through my family's alternative e-mail account at
mustaphafamily@caramail.com and when it warrants we shall
talk on my telephone number 234-80-5431-4764, which will
be as we progress.

Thanking you in advance for your kind gesture to my family.

Best regards.
Mustapha Sani Abacha.


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