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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. SHOLA KADIRI" <drsholak@myway.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 04:25:20 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: RE: VERY HONOURED TO REACH YOU.












VERY URGENT AND PRIVATE My dear Partner: VICTIMNAME,

I wish to thank you for your kind respond to my proposal to you. I believe that this is the beginning of better relationship between us. I and one of my collegues "Mrs Catherine Ariwodo" the Audit Manager, are the only people with this healthy business information.

We are people well respected in our establishment and country due to many years of good and qualitative services we have put into our work.We do not intend this status quo to change hence we have perfected this transaction to come out risk free and without any hitch. We have mapped out a perfect plan that shall see us conclude this transaction successfully. We shall place you as the NEXT OF KIN to the deceased with every other necessary documents that shall ensure the speedy transfer of this funds to you.

To procure all this necessary documents that will make you the true beneficiary of this funds, we will be spending $29,200 (Twenty Nine Thousand Two Hundred U.S Dollars) for Lawyer fees and Court charges, I and my colleque, Mrs Catherine Ariwodo, in this transaction will be responsible for the above mentioned expenses.

We shall use our office to ensure the speedy release of the money to you.We have employed the services of some Attorney's to perfect all the paper work and give it the legalities it deserves. When these documents that will make you the true beneficiary of this funds are ready, you will need to proceed with the signing of the documents with your proper signature before the release of this funds to your nominated account in anywhere of the world.

A Registered Diplomatic courier service also known as bankers courier will deliver all the legal transfer documents as it normally bind originally in Ten (10) copies to your door step and after signing by you they will bring it back to the Union Bank office here in Lagos for good record keeping. "PLEASE NOTE THAT THESE DOCUMENTS CANNOT BE SCAN OR FAX" because it will be bind together in Ten (10) original copies that will be return to the Union Bank here and other Ten (10) duplicate copies that you will take to your bank to confirm the Telegraphic Transfer ( TT ) of the money in your account and contact us to come down to your country for subsequent sharing of the funds according to percentages previously indicated and further investment, either in your country or any country you advice us to invest in or better still in Estate Residence Buildings.

All we need from you is to faithfully Co-operate with us to enable us conclude this business successfully in a very short period. We have given you our trust and word. You will retain 40% of this total sum of $21 Million U. S. Dollars to your good self as reward for your kind Co-operation and Gratification. I hope this will make you keep our shares of the money? We hope that you will not betray us in this transaction.

We plan to give out 10% of our shares of this money to charitable organisations and less priviledged accross the globe.We are already in contact with some of them who are urgently expecting the money to conclude some of their unfinished projects.That is why we implore you to be dedicated to enable us conclude this transaction within a short time. We shall need you as partner in this business to assured us that you are going to assist us financially to settle the final handling and releasing Signing fee to enable the high Officials in authority to release the money into your account as the next of kin/Beneficiary. To start the documentations, you are required to send the following details:.

1. Your Full Names:................................... 2. Full Contact address:..............................(For Delivery) 3. Private Telephone and Fax numbers:................... 4. Date of Birth:........................... 5. Age:........................................6. Occupation:................................ 7. Bank Account details:.................................

Kindly send all the information to me so that we can commence with the preparation of the documents in your name as relative to our late customer Mr. Gerald Patrick, through our Attorneys. On this note i implore you to hasting up and send the requested details to us so that we can forward your data to the appropriate department in our Union Bank (finance house) here to commence the rights and previledges of claim as the Next of Kin on your name and the moment we received the details from you, i will call you on telephone so that we can discuss more on this transaction and answer any other question where you are not clarified.

PLEASE NOTE: THAT YOUR FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE WILL BE NEEDED FOR THE FINAL HANDLING AND RELEASING SIGNING OF THE FUNDS INTO YOUR ACCOUNT. We look forward for assuring us of your capability and honesty with strictly confidential in this transaction. Thank you and may God continue to bless you and your family.Best regards, Dr. Shola Kadiri. Tel.234-806-7008650(Director: Auditing and Accounting Dept. Union Bank PLC)



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