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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: "Duruh" <iedrisy441@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Reply-To: iedrisy444@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 13:15:20 +0200
Subject: Re. Your attention needed

Attention: President/Director,

I am the chairman of the contract award committee of the Gold and Natural resources ministry here

in Dakar Senegal, for security reasons, I may not wish to disclose the most important thing for

now until I hear from you.

After due deliberation with my partner, I decided to forward to you this business proposal, we

want you to assist us receive the sum of Twenty million united state bills into your account.

This fund resulted from an over-invoiced contract awarded by us under the budget allocation to my

ministry and the bill was approved for payment by the concerned ministries. The contract was

executed, commissioned and the contractor was paid his actual cost of the contract. Now, we are

left with the balance of Twenty million dollars as the over invoiced amount, which we have

deliberately over estimated for our own use. Please note that the law forbids civil servants to

operate or own foreign accounts hence this contact, we have agreed to share the money in the

following percentages: 30 for you, 60 for us 10 for tax as may be required by your government,

because we don?t need anything will delay this money when it arrive in your bank account.

Note that this transaction is very much free from all sorts of risk hence the business was

carefully planned before it was successfully executed and we the officials involved in the deal

have put many years in service to our ministry. We have been exercising patience for this

privilege for so long not until the presidential announcement last week, that all foreign

contractors owed be paid forthwith, this will enable the presidency reconcile our debt ratio with

the outside world and to most of us, this is a lifetime blessing we cannot afford to miss.

Upon indication of your interest to fully co-operate with us, a payment application/information

form will be sent to you via email for completion. Note that the following information: your

private phone number and email address willenable us seek/secure approval of the fund from the

concerned government quarters/ministries within 3-4 banking days. As soon as we confirm receipt

of this money in your nominated bank account, my partner and I will come over to your country to

arrange for our own share and possibly invest part of this money in your country. Let honesty

and trust be our watchword throughout this transaction.

I shall furnish you with some details about myself. Your prompt reply will be highly appreciated.

Best regards.

Engr. Zani Duruh




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