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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: "davidedward@terra.es" <davidedward@terra.es>
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 17:37:37 +0100 (MET)
Subject: A REQUEST FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE



Dear Friend,

I am david Edward the personal attorney and also the personal assitant on private related issues to James Onanefe Ibori the governor of Delta,a state in the Niger/Delta the bedrock of Nigerian
oil, and also my client is the president of the Niger/delta movement.

Delta state alone provides 70% of Nigerias total income and yet the people surffer alot of hardship without social amenities that keeps you alive,due to this delimitating factor my client moved a motion to the house of assembly with the surpport of his counterpart in other state within the Niger/Delta region that since the region provides over 70% of Nigerias basic income in total,they which to controll the resources and everything that comes out from there,this motion was relayed before the president in the person of Olusegun Obasanjo after reviewing this he was not happy with my client,and he later refused that such should not be pass into law,and there from the case was taken to the law court for proper verification and justification,the case was going in our favour until the judge was murderd, and eversince the president has vowed to deal with my client with every inch of his power and to the very last even to jail.just recently the governor of Bayelsa state was arrrested and detained in london it was a setup by mr president Olusegun Obasanjo to furstrate every effort we put in place to actuallising our dream.

THE REASON WHY I AM CONTACTING YOU.
I am contacting you because we have an excess of $31 million us dollars ear marked for contract in our possesion,so we seek your help in repartrating it to your country.we are doing this because a move to impeach my client is already in progress and every step we take is been monitored by the federal government with agencies every where.

WHAT YOU ARE TO DO
All you are to do is to write to the authority that you are a contractor who executed a contract in delta state and you have not been paid,that is all and as soon as you reply i shall give you the fulldetails on how to go about contacting the the department responsible for payment of contractors,every document to back you up will be provided by us to proof beyond reasonable doubt that it is true.

RISK FREE
I want to assure you that this transaction is hundred percent risk free you are not going to be involved in any questioning or interogation,

YOUR BENEFIT
We have thought it wise to reward you with 20% and 5% for any charitable organisation of your choice.

we will be very glad to read from you soonest, you can also reach me on my most confidential number (234 80 50 936 759
Best Regards,

DAVID EDWARD (SAN)






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