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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: <funkebalogun777@nonomail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 22:39:23 +0200
Subject: Hello



Message-ID: <9a86aa771b923f8583560bd4c9a99285@localhost>

X-Sender: funkebalogun777@nonomail.com

User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.1-20051021

Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit



Dear Friend,



As matters of urgency, I decided to write you this email, though I am very sorry for any language you might find disturbing or not pleasing to you.



I never wish to engage myself in this before now.





I am Alhaja Funke Balogun, the wife of the out going Inspector General of Police of Nigeria (IG) MR.Tafa Balogun though series of grafted Allegations leveled against him by the presidency because of personal

difference between him and the president. Please read this Allegation news maybe it my might make meaning of what I am trying to say.





http://odili.net/news/source/2005/jan/23/520.html





http://www.independentng.com/news/nnjan250501.htm





I sincerely beg for your pardon, haven known what this kind of mail might signify to you, as a result of Nigeria image abroad. Even though I never would have believed i will find myself in a situation of sending What you might regard as unsolicited mail i am begging to assist me in investing this sum of amount of money which is(US$15.5MILLION (FIFTEEN MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS) in a security firm before the presidency get aware of this.





There is nothing I can do now because we can't afford to loose this kind of money to the presidency, as this will bring us more trouble.



And at the end, become personal fund of the president and few governments Individual like the fund they got from the late president Sanni Abacha's accounts ranking billions.





In simple terms, I want to beg you for an assistance in helping my husband and I accommodate this money for investment purposes we have withdrawn from our account and has been deposited in a Finance company.





We are ready to issue documents for this transfer as money payable For business transaction.



Please there is no need for any fear what so ever as this fund was not directly attached to my husband name but my first family name.



Sir/Madam, if this mail makes any meaning to you and you wish to assist us, kindly contact me.





As soon as I hear from you I will forward your information to our family lawyer, he is in the position to tell you what you will do as soon as possible for this fund to be in your position for investment.





I seek for your co-operation in this arrangement.





Thanks,





Alhaja. Funke Balogun





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