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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 about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "Rev. Justics Okele" <revjokele@sympatico.ca>
Reply-To: revjokele1@yahoo.es
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 09:08:33 +0000
Subject: Your Pending Payment

THE UNITED NATIONS ORGANISATION
In Conjunction with the International Monetary Fund
WORLD BANK FACT-FINDING & SPECIAL DUTIES OFFICE
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM.

TEL: +447040104810
Email: revjokele1@yahoo.es

Dear Sir/ Madam.

Before I introduce myself, I wish to inform you that this letter is not a
hoax mail and I urge you to treat it serious, I am Rev. Father Justics Okele
a senior staff with the World Bank fact finding & special duties office. I
am writing you this letter because cool penny is better than millions of
dollars. It is better for one to live and die poor honest man than a rich
dishonest one.

I and the chief security officer (CSO) of this organization have arranged
with an officer in computer section engineer Peter Cliff to bring out part
of your total pending payment sum amounting to US$10 million. Why we did
this is because according to information gathered from the bank's/security
computer, you have been waiting for a long time to receive your money
without success.

As I found out that you have almost met all the statutory requirements in
respect of your pending payment, your problem is that of interest groups. A
lot of people are interested in your payment and those people are merely
doing paper works with you and that explains why you receive fax and phone
messages from different people everyday.

Also we found out that some of the officials of the parastatals have been
extorting a lot of money from you with the pretext of helping you receive
your money. I can assure you that this may last for years yet nothing
happens if you do not do away with those officers that you call your
partners. And for security reasons do not tell anybody that You have your
money until you receive cash at your door step.

The money is in a security-proof box weighing 75kg. Yesterday we went to
four courier companies to make arrangements on how to ship them by courier
to you. Dhl, ems, FedEx, ups all said that they must open the boxes for
inspection by the customs before shipment. This is something we want to
avoid because the box is padded with synthetic nylon and to open it, you
have to cut the pad before you will meet the button that you will press to
open the dial code-lock.

There is no way you can open the box and be able to close it again because
it was padded with machine. We told the courier services that the box
contained film materials and when open will spoil the materials. We did not
declare money because courier does not carry money.

Today a friend of mine who is diplomat disclosed to me that there is a
security courier service they use to send diplomatic materials and
information from one country to another. It has diplomatic immunity and
consignment cannot be checked by any customs anywhere in the world. I have
met the officials of the security courier service and concluded shipping
arrangement with them, which they will commence as soon as i have your go
ahead order.

The diplomat will help me so we do not have any problem. We have concluded
that you must donate Five Hundred Thousand United States dollars
(US$500,000.00) to charity here in U.K as soon as you received your money.
To this effect, you will send us a promissory note for Five Hundred Thousand
United States dollars (US$500,000.00) along with your address for sending
the box by courier.

Please maintain topmost secrecy as it may cause a lot of problems if found
out that we are using this way to help you. Do not ever tell anybody about
this until you have your money. I want to help you because something in me
is telling me that you are an honest person. When you conclude this and you
send our promise, we will help to ship the final part of your money to you.

God be with us as we wait for your reply. Please do not fail to call.

TEL: +447040104810
Email: revjokele1@yahoo.es

Your faithfully,
Rev. Fr. Justics Okele



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