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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: "james" <jameswaziri89@myway.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:16:56 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: DEAR PARTNER


FROM Mr. James Waziri Director, Project Implementations Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Lagos- Nigeria Dear Friend, BUSINESSS PROSPECT It is with great expectation that I write you. Your particulars were given to me by a member of the Nigerian Investment Promotion Council (N.I.P.C) who was at the Federal Government Delegation to your country during a trade exhibition. I have decided to seek a confidential co-operation with you in the execution of the deal described hereunder for the benefit of all parties and hope you will treat as is confidentially required. Within the NIGER DELTA DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION (NDDC) (the Crude Oil Management Commission set up by the present Government to develop the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria), where I work as a Director, Projects Implementation and with the co-operation of two other top executives, we have in our possession, full documentation of an overdue payment bill for the sum of Fifty Million US Dollar(US$50,000,000.00)
which we desire to transfer abroad with the aid of a foreign assistance. This amount represent a certain percentage of the total contract value to an over-invoiced contract job executed for the Commission by a foreign contracting firm to whom full payment dues has already been given . we are hopping to include this present bill of payment for this third quarter payment section of the commission for this fiscal year, 2006 provided that you are immediately ready to execute this with us. With the co-operation of some other key government officials, further payment documentation and approvals to ensure the remittance of the above sum to your recommended account will be made absolutely possible. Bear in mind though that apart from the need for you to provide us a well managed account into which we will recommend the payment of this sum, we will also require you to produce a name and address of a corporate outfit which will stand, in the course of our internal documentation fo!
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subsequent payment approvals, as the beneficiary contracting company to whom this payment is due, supposedly on a contract project executed for same commission. Please understand that your full commitment and sincerity thereto will be foremost ascertained to be to the generallity of our interest as we would not want a repeatition of an occurence we had with one Mr. Steve Davidson of 104 Minosa Avenue, Linden, Alabama, who accepted to assist us with a similar project some years back and at the end of it all ran away with a little over US$8Million after the funds had successfully been transferred into his account. To fully prevent a reoccurence of such an incidence and to adequately protect our individual interest and entitlements, we have mapped out certain applicable precautionary measure which we will, at an appropriate time, discuss elaborately on preceeding it's implementation. I have the authority of my partners involved to propose that should you be willing to assist
and partake in this transaction, you will retain 30% of the principal sum when same has been safely deposited into your account, 60% will be released to us in the manner we will instruct while the balance 10%, we choose to earmark for the accommodation of taxation with your recommended bankers, as well as the re-imbursement of our envisaged individual and collective expenses in seeing through with thios exercise. Please do urgently respond indicating if you are interested and or capable of handling this or not as we desire to finish up on this project within the following Twenty one (21) working days. I await your soonest response. Yours' faithfully, Mr. James WaziriProject Implementation (NDDC)

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