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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: shafer uma <shaferum01@yahoo.ca>
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 08:49:14 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: what is going on pastor


Dear Pastor Robert Ised,
I doubt the content of your mails, if I read you fine. Are you asking the attorney to pay the money I owe the security company. I hope you didn’t tell him to do that. Because I told you this from the beginning that I am owing the security company. And loosing this attorney will get things very messed up because I have already handed to him all the documents. Which suppose to be secret. Tell me you never wrote all this mails to the attorney else you have killed me.

Already he has been working for me in weeks about this money without any cent given to him. Why why? This sound very threatening now if already sent him all this mail forwarded to me. I was even wondering why he never report to me since yesterday morning. We cannot ask him to pay the security money; he will hate to hear that because I already told him who you are and my agreement with you. I begged him to work for his payment later.

Could you give me details of what is going on now? Because you promise assured me efficient handling of this transfer with the attorney.
Sheik Shaffer Umaru.



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