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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: "Dr. Yada Nasiru" <yada2xx@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: yadaman72xx@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 08:15:17 -0800 (PST)
Subject: OCEANIC BANK NIGERIA PLC


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: yada2xx@yahoo.com



OCEANIC BANK NIGERIA PLC

HEADQUARTERS ANNEX

OZUMBA MBADIWE VICTORIA ISLAND

LAGOS - NIGERIA

EMAIL: yadaman72xx@yahoo.com.hk


I am Mr. Yada Nasiru of the bills and exchange at the foreign remitance department of Oceanic Bank Nig. PLC. I am offering this proposal to solicite your support and co-operation to carry out this urgent business transaction.


Precisely on the 22nd of october,2005. A very prominent client of ours, the first lady of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Chief Mrs Stella Obansanjo passed away while undergoing surgery in Spain. Before her death, I personally managed several accounts for her including those for her pet project Child Care Trust [C.C.T] . During an internal investigation conducted by her lawyer and myself we discovered an abandoned sum of money $28.5 (Twenty Eight Million Five Hundred Thousand U.S Dollars Only).


Since her demise, Nobody has approached the bank to claim the money because she did not indicate anyone as her next of kin and besides the details of the account are still being kept secret by myself and the lawyer,who incidentally is the only signatory to the account. In line with this present scenario, I have decided to contact you on behalf of the lawyer to release the money to you for safe keeping. We have agreed that you can have 30% of the money as a foreign partner thereafter we will visit your country for

disbursement according to the percentage indicated.


As soon as I hear from you, I will have the Lawyer swing into action by obtaining all relevant documents to ensure smooth free transaction, as all documents would be legalised to soothe the purpose and effect change of ownership, including affidavit of claim and letter of administration, and thereafter, we will move all legal and transfer documents to our offshore clearing house in Madrid Spain, where the money would be paid to your account, because as she has made it in her account documents funds would be paid through the bank in Spain. Details of the bank will be made available to you as soon as we finalised all the legal requirements here in Nigeria.


Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of ownership, the details of your bank account information is needed, telephone and fax numbers including your company name and address and other relevant informations are needed Urgently. The lawyer will take care of all legal documents involved while I on my part will ensure the speedy transfer of the funds to you. Please your reply is urgently required as we have less than four months before the internal auditors begin their investigations. You can contact me through this email address (yadaman72xx@yahoo.com.hk)


Hope to hear from


you soonest.


Mr. Yada Nasiru.







- Dr. Yada Nasiru


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