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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: "Eno Joseph" <e_joseph0001@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: enojoseph02@myway.com
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:40:47 +0100
Subject: I need your consent

From,
Mr. Eno Joseph,
Email: enojoseph02@myway.com

Dear friend,

I am Mr. Eno Joseph, Audit and Finance Officer, with Standard Securities &
Investment Ltd, I am writing this letter to ask for your Support and
co-operation to carry out this business opportunity in my department. We
discovered an abandoned sum of (USD10.5 Million) in an account that belongs
to one of our foreign customers Late Engineer.Atkinson, who died in the
Ikeja Bomb blast of the 27th of January 2002 including his wife and Two
children.

Since his death, we have been expecting his next-of-kin to come over and put
claims for his money as his heir, for we cannot release the fund from his
account unless someone applies to claim as the next-of-kin to the deceased
as indicated in our banking regulation. Unfortunately,neither their family
member nor distant relatives have showed up to claim the said fund.

Upon this discovery, my colleagues and I, have agreed to make business with
you and release the total amount into your account as the heir to the fund
since no one came for it or discovered he maintained an account with our
bank, otherwise the fund will be returned to the banks treasury as unclaimed
fund.

For clarity, we have agreed that our ratio of sharing will be as stated
thus; 20% for you as foreign partner, 75% for me and the officials in my
department and 5% for the settlement of all local and foreign expenses
incurred during the course of this business.

Upon the successful completion of this transfer, my colleagues and I,will
come to your country and mind our share. It is from our 75 % we intend to
import Agricultural Machineries into mycountry as a way of recycling the
fund. To commence this transaction, we require you to immediately indicate
your interest by a return e-mail and enclose your private contact telephone
& fax numbers, full names & address to enable the process of this
transaction in your favour and to effect the necessary approvals before the
transfer can be made.

Note also, this transaction must be kept STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL because of
its nature. For confirmation of this story please refer to these sites:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2718295.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2698081.stm
http://www.worldsocialist-cwi.org/index2.html?/eng/2002/02/02.html

I look forward to receiving your prompt response.

Regards,
Mr. Eno Joseph.

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