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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: REVEREND FATHER <coolrev1@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: coolrev_fr_j_maxwell@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 20:02:48 +0100 (BST)
Subject: BASED ON TRUST


THE UNITED NATIONS ORGANISATION
In Conjunction with the International Monetary Fund
WORLD BANK FACT-FINDING & SPECIAL DUTIES OFFICE
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM.
coolrev_fr_j_maxwell@yahoo.co.uk

Compliments,

I am Rev. John Maxwell, a senior staff with the World Bank fact finding
& special duties office. I am writing you this letter because cool
penny is better than millions of dollars. It is better for one to live
and die poor honest man than a rich dishonest one.

I and the chief security officer (CSO) of this organization have arranged with an officer in computer section engineer Peter Cliff to bring out part of your total pending payment sum amounting to US$10 million. Why we did this is because according to information gathered from the bank’s/security computer, you have been waiting for a long time to receive your money without success. As I found out that you have almost
met all the statutory requirements in respect of your pending payment,
your problem is that of interest groups. A lot of people are interested in
your payment and those people are merely doing paper works with you and that
explains why you receive fax and phone messages from different people
everyday. Also we found out that some of the officials of the parastatals
have been extorting a lot of money from you with the pretext of helping you receive your money. I can assure you that this may last for years yet nothing happens if you do not do away with those officers that you call your partners. And for security reasons do not tell anybody that you haveyour money until you receive cash at your door step.

The money is in a security-proof box weighing 75kg. Yesterday we went
to four courier companies to make arrangements on how to ship them by
courier to you. Dhl, ems, FedEx, ups all said that they must open the
boxes for inspection by the customs before shipment. This is something
we want to avoid because the box is padded with synthetic nylon and to
open it, you have to cut the pad before you will meet the button that you
will press to open the dial code-lock. There is no way you can open the
box and be able to close it again because it was padded with machine.
We told the courier services that the box contained film materials and
when open will spoil the materials. We did not declare money because courier
does not carry money.

Today a friend of mine who is diplomat disclosed to me that there is a security courier service they use to send diplomatic materials andinformation from one country to another. It has diplomatic immunity and consignment cannot be checked by any customs anywhere in the world. I have met the officials of the security courier service and concluded shipping arrangement with them, which they will commence as soon as i have your go ahead order. The diplomat will help me so we do not have
any problem. We have concluded that you must donate Five Hundred
Thousand United States dollars (US$500,000.00) to charity here as soon
as you receive your money. To this effect, you will send us a
promissory note for Five Hundred Thousand United States dollars
(US$500,000.00) along with your address for sending the box by courier.
Please maintain topmost secrecy as it may cause a lot of problems if
found out that we are using this way to help you. Do not ever tell
anybody about this until you have your money. I want to help you
because something in me is telling me that you are an honest person. When you
conclude this and you send our promise, we will help to ship the final
part of your money to you.

God be with us as we wait for your reply. Please do not fail to call or
reply to my private email: coolrev_fr_j_maxwell@yahoo.co.uk

Yours faithfully,
REV.FATHER JOHN MAXWELL.



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