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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: wiljohnson <wilfredjohnson07@yahoo.com.cn> (may be fake)
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 19:58:59 +0200
Subject: THE BUDGET COMMITTEE.


Dear Friend,

As I said in my e-mail to you We are sending this letter to you based
on the information gathered about your company from our private
search, we believe that you would be in a position to help us in our
bid to transfer the sum of ($15milliom USD Dollars) into your company
account.

We are members of the special committee for budget and planning of the Ministry of Petroleum, this committee is principally concerned with
contract appraisals and approval of contracts in order to priorities as
regards capital project of the Federal Government of Nigeria.

With our positions, we have successfully secured for
ourselves the sum
of($15M).This amount was accumulated through
undercleared windfall from
sales of crude oil during the Gulf War.

What we need from you is to provide us your company
account were the
fund will be transferred since Government officials
are not allowed by
our laws to operate foreign account.

It has been agreed that your company will be
compensated with 30% of
the remitted funds, we keep 60% while 10% will be set
aside to offset
expenses and pay the ssary taxes.

It may interest you to know that two years ago a
similar transaction
was carried out with one Mr. Patrice Miller, the
president of Craine
International Trading Corporation at No.135, East 57th
Street, 28th
Floor, New York, 10022 with Telephone (212) 308-7788
and telex
No.6731684,after the agreement between both partners
in which he was to
take 5%. The money was duly transferred into his
account only to be
disappointed on our arrival in new York as we were
reliably informed that Mr. Patrice Miller was no longer on that address while his telephone and telex numbers have reallocated to somebody
else, that is how we lost US$17.5M to Mr. Patrice Miller.

This time around we need a more reliable and trustworthy person or a reputable company to do business with, hence this letter to your company, so if you can prove Yourself to be trusted
and interested in this deal then we are prepared to do business with you.
What we want from you is the assurance that you will let us have our share

when this amount of $15Million USD is transferred into your account. If
this proposal satisfies you, please E-mail us your telephone Number,
Fax number, and your banking particulars to this email: (wilfredjohnson@she.com) so that we can advice you on the modalities of the transaction.

All modalities of the transfer have been worked out
and once started
will not take more than 7 working days with the absolute support of allconcerned.

This transaction is 100% safe. Please treat as urgent and very confidential. God be with you as I look forward to
your reply.

Yours faithfully,
Mr.Wilfred Johnson.


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