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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: =?iso-8859-1?q?FRANK=20DURU?= <frank_durueng@yahoo.de>
Reply-To: frank_durueng@myway.com
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 19:26:25 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: good day


Ich habe eine neue E-Mail-Adresse!Ich bin jetzt unter folgender E-Mail-Adresse zu erreichen: frank_durueng@yahoo.de

OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENTIAL ADVISER ON PETROLEUM ANDENERGY THE PRESIDENCY ABUJA -NIGERIA.

Dear Sir/Mdam,

Greetings!

It is indeed my pleasure to write you this letter,which I believe will be a surprise to you as we have never met before,and I am deeply sorry if I have in any manner disturbed your privacy.Please forgive this unusual manner of contacting you, but this particular letter is of exceptional and very private nature. There is absolutely going to be a great doubt and distrust in your heartin respect of this email, coupled with the fact that, so many individuals have taken possession of the Internet to facilitatetheir nefarious deeds, thereby making it extremely difficult forgenuine and legitimate business class persons to get attention andrecognition. There is no way for me to know whether I will beproperly understood, but it is my duty to write and reach out to you. My name is Frank Mark,I head a four-man Committee on DebtReconciliation at the Ministry of PetroleumResources, where I amalso a Director of Project Implementation. In recent past, we havecarefully arranged a contract w!
ith a foreign firm, in which the costwas over-invoiced deliberately to favour us. Now, we want to get thefunds out of the bank into your provided account within one weekfrom now, and a percentage (30%) will be given to you for yourassistance and efforts. the amount we are about transferring istotaled at Twenty Seven Million, Four Hundred Thousand US Dollars(US$27,400,000.00) I have the authority of my partners involvedto propose that should you be willing to assist us in thetransaction your share as compensation will be US$8.22 million (30%),US$16.44 million(60%) for us and US$2.74 million(10%) for taxationand miscellaneous expenses.Trust is definitely the most nobletrait in the world, and I urge you to trust my sincerity and the word of a simple and humble person of faith, who is willing to accomplish the task of doing business with you. It is up to you to decide whether this letter deserves your trust and confidentiality.And if indeed it does, please send me thefollowing!
: (i) Acceptance of this offer (ii)Your company name/address, telephon
e/fax numbers and a bank account where the funds would be lodged. (iii)Convincing Honesty, Trustworthiness and Willingness to abide by therequirements of this proposal paramount of which is CONFIDENTIALITY. Upon receipt of the above, I shall communicatewith you, and let you know the details of the transfer. Whateveryour actions and your decision, I thank you for taking the time toread this email.

Best personal regards. 234=01=4766=551

Mr.Frank Mark id:frankdurueng@myway.com,frank_durueng@myway.com



- FRANK DURU


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