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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: "richard akinwole" <richlandakinwole5@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 02:25:10 -0800
Subject: GOOD DAY

Dear Sir/Madam,

CONFIDENTIAL

Maybe this my request will come to you as a
surprise as we have not seen nor met eachother before.
My name is RICHARD AKINWOLE an Accountant with a
commercial Bank in the city of Lagos Nigeria.
However, I got this your email address via the
Internet search and after going through your profile
I was inspired to send this unsolicited proposal to
you as a result of an urgent request from one
of my valued customers. I apologise if you are
offended.


My customer's name is STEVE JOHNSON a Liberian
who came to Nigeria with their ousted President
(CHARLES TAYLOR) for their assylum. He (Mr JOHNSON) was
a personal assistant who stood-in for his President
(Charles Taylor) in Liberia in many committees.

According to him during their reign in Liberia he
made some good money with which he came to Nigeria on assylum
in his President's entourage.

Presently Mr JOHNSON and other members of Mr TALOR's
entourage to Nigeria who were left behind in Nigeria
while MR TAYLOR is presently in the NEDERLANDS
are residing in Calabar south east Nigeria, their
movements ristricted and activities are monitored by the law
enforcement Agencies.

Mr JOHNSON has a fixed term deposit of Twenty sixty
million dollars (US$26m) with this Bank and with the
extradition of his President (CHARLES TAYLOR) to Nederlands
via Liberia for judgement of the crimes he committed
during the Liberian war and as Nigeria Government has
asked them (Charles Talor's entourage to Nigeria) to
prepar to go back to Liberia any moment from now.
Mr JOHNSON himself by verified Bank instruments has
instructed and assigned to me as his personal accounts
officer to help him transfer this his money to
anyother country outside Africa where he can go and
spend the rest of his life as he would NOT like to go
back to Liberia.

It is with regard to this money that I am contacting you
to partner with me to receive and secure this fund into your a/c
or any account nominated by you to assist me to help
Mr JOHNSON. As I agreed with him (Mr JOHNSON),
you will be paid in full (100%) of every
expenses you will make in the course of this transfer. This money
will be wired to you by Telegraphic Transfer (TT) or
Bank verified Cheque or by Diplomatic Channel.

Please this business requires every amount of TRUST
and CONFIDENTIALITY as I am recommending you to MR
JOHNSON. Feel free to query for clarification on any
aspect of this transaction.

Could you please contact me as soon as possible via a
return email today so that we can discuss in details and you should please
disregard or discard this proposal if you can not
assist me.

Regads.

RICHARD AKINWOLE

 



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