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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: Williams Lovatt <w_lovatt@yahoo.it>
Reply-To: w_wilsvatt@myway.com
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 08:39:43 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: HOW CAN I TRUST YOU ,




Dear Sir,


I am Mr. Williams Lovatt. 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$60,500,000,000.00(Sixty 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]in 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. Al!
l 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 60,500,000.00 (Sixty 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 and urgency it deserves.


Kindly expedite action as we are behind schedule to enable us include this transfer in this first batch which would constitute the first

quarter payment for this 2006 financial year.

Contact me as soon as possible.

Your Sincerely,

Mr. Williams Lovatt.




- Williams Lovatt


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