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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: james mark <jamesmark121@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 04:51:05 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: FROM JAMES MARK URGENT REPLY


Dear Sir/Madam,
This mail may come to you as a suprise but it is intended to reach you and bring good tidings to your business and family.Before going futher to introduce my purpose of contacting you,it is only appropriate to introduce myself.I am a Director-General in the Federal Ministry of Miniral and Energy in the Federal Republic of Nigeria. I am 56years of age married with three children and will be going on retirement soon after 30years of service.

This business involves US$30,000,000,00.which i want to introduce to you and it emanated from over-invioced contract executed on behalf of my ministry by foreign contractors.The original contract awarded by me was US$115,000,000,00 which i over-invoiced to the tune of
US$30,000,000,00 for my future retirement and the actual contract value has since been paid to the foreign contractors leaving me with the extra US$30,000,000,00.for my retirement plan.I have decided to contact you because i need a reliable person who can help me invest this accrued sum of US$30,000,000,00 into a profitable foreign venture because as a civil servant and also because of the position i occupy,I am not allowed to own foreign accounts or

investments.Although,I am highly placed but poorly paid hence i need this investments for the future of my family after years of meritourous service to my ministry hence i want someone who can confidentially invest on my behalf into a profitable business such as real estate for a brighter future.

To do this,I will register you as a foreign contractor in my ministry in category A of foreign contractors and make an application for payment in your favour which i will approve for payment into the beneficiary account for the sum of US$30,000,000,00. Once the money is transfered, you will be legally entitled to 30% of the US$30million for all of your assistance, while 70% will go for my investments. Meanwhile, please send me your confidential telephone and fax so that we can speak and communicate to know ourselves better considering the amount of money involved while you can contact me with my confidential Email: jamesmark121@yahoo.com

When dailing, please dail your international dailing code followed by my number because i do not go through exchanges for strict confidentiality.Finally, I strive for the commitment to operate only on high standards of intergrity and honesty and i need thesame comittment to this transaction from you and if however you are not intrested,I plead with you in the name of God to kindly destroy this mail due to my position and personality in service.
Thanks for your anticipated co-operation.
Remain Blessed,
Dr James Martins.





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