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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: shafer uma <shaferum01@yahoo.ca>
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 11:26:20 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: i need a striaght answer please



Dear Pastor Robert Ised,

Now your wish has happened I suppose. The attorney has dropped to be part of this transfer. You should have contacted me first before asking him to pay the security bill. No attorney will accept that condition in fact. I am not defending him but I met and discussed with very many other attorney’s around before him. Non-have treated me the way he did, accepting payment after work. Every other once wanted payment for work.

Before I call him for another meeting. I have to ask you. Now can you afford to send to him half of the security bill? I am surprise you are saying he accepted the condition because all the letters he brought here shows he wrote you about the security money separate.

Answer me fast please. Because he is still in possession of the documents and he is demanding full payment of his consultation payment should you terminate the contract this way?
Sheik Shaffer Umaru

Pastor Robert Ised <pastorised@googlemail.com> wrote: Dear Mr Shafer,

We clearly laid out a contract to your lawyer which after negotiation over the price he fully accepted. We even had to query the nil value he originally quoted for the security company despite having agreed to pay for all sub-contract work in completion of the contract. We initially thought he had included it in his exhorbitant fee demand of $15,000 which we settled at $12,000 but then he introduced the near $4,000 charges for the xecurity company. We accepted it as that task was practically done.

He has renaged on our agreement. He was very clearly told he would be responsible for payments to other parties. He then says he can't afford to pay them! What kind of client accounting business does he run?

Now he either accepts the contract we gave him or another laywer is found. The delay and the problems are all at the lawyers instigation. Our contract was fair and it was agreed by both parties.

Sir, I have ensured you were copied in on all communications as you requested. Either you instruct your lawyer to comply with our terms and conditions or find us a new lawyer who at least can read a contract and knows how to deal with client accounts as most lawyers we deal with do. No other lawyer has given us as much trouble as this one man is giving us now.

You talk about efficiency and so are our many dealings in this type of charitable activity. it is why we hand over total control of an operation to the principal involved in this case your lawyer. He has proven to be totally inefficient and un-cooertive tending his resignation at every possible opportunity. that is not the way to behave.

I suggest you direct him much more closely to comply with our terms else engage a new lawyer.

You can of course pull out of your agreement with us, we will only bill you for the time and expenditure we have incurred thus far together with our admin fee of 10% of the contract sum agreed ($1,846)

Pastor Robert Ised

On 7/29/06, shafer uma <shaferum01@yahoo.ca> wrote: 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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