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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?ogachuba=20ogachuba?= <ogachuba5@yahoo.co.in>
Reply-To: trustbank_313@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 15:57:46 +0100 (BST)
Subject: greetings


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: ogachuba5@yahoo.co.in

Dear Friend,



I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting those funds

transferred under the new co-operation of a new partner from Holland.

Presently I'm in

Holland for investment projects with my own share of the total sum.


Meanwhile, I appreciate your past efforts and attempts to assist me in

transferring those funds despite that it failed us some how. Now

contact my secretary, her name is mrs. Almic email:

trustbank_313@yahoo.com

ask her to

send you the total sum of$900.000.00 which I kept for your compensation

for

all the past efforts and attempts to assist me in this matter. I

appreciated

your efforts at that time very much. so feel free and get in touched

with my

secretary Mrs. Almic and instruct her where to send the amount to you.

Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share

the

joy after all the difficulty at that time. in the moment, I am very

busy

here because of the investment projects which me and the new partner

are

having at hand.


finally,remember that I had forwarded instruction to the secretary on

your

behalf to send the funds to you, feel free to contact her. And she will

send

the amount to you accordingly. Please noet: keep this as top secret

until

the money get to you, so that someone else will not take advantage and

divert the funds.



kind regards:

- ogachuba ogachuba


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