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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: adams_isa40@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 10:49:58 -0800
Subject: CALL ME ON MY PHONE

Phone: +234-802-554-9993
pls reply to this box-adams_isa4001@yahoo.co.in or isa_frank7@myway.com
Dear Freiend,

Iam the chairman of the contract award committee of the
NationalPetroleum Corporation here in Nigerian, for security reasons, I may notwish to
disclose how I got your email address for now.

After duedeliberation with my partner, I decided to forward to you this
businessproposal, we want you to assist us receive the sum of Twenty
eightmillion, six hundred thousand united state bills(us28.6m) into
youraccount. This fund resulted from an over-invoiced contract awarded byus
under the budget allocation to my ministry and the bill was approvedfor
payment by the concerned ministries. The contract was
executed,commissioned and the contractor was paid his actual cost of thecontract. Now,
we are left with the balance of us28.6m as the overinvoiced amount,
which we have deliberately over estimated for our ownuse. Please note that
the law forbids civil servants to operate or ownforeign accounts hence
this contact, we have agreed to share the moneyin the following
percentages: 30 for you, 60 for us 10 for tax as maybe required by your
government.

Note that this transaction isvery much free from all sorts of risk
hence the business was carefullyplanned before it was successfully executed
and we the officialsinvolved in the deal have put many years in service
to our ministry. Wehave been exercising patience for this privilege for
so long not untilthe presidential announcement last week, that all
foreign contractorsowed be paid forthwith, this will enable the presidency
reconcile ourdebt ratio with the outside world and to most of us, this
is a lifetimeblessing we cannot afford to miss. Upon indication of your
interest tofully co-operate with us, a payment application/information
form willbe sent to you via email for completion.

Be informed also thatthe above mentioned form V when properly completed
by youand return via email, will enable us seek/secureapproval of the
fund from the concerned government quarters/ministrieswithin 1-2 banking
days.

As soon as we confirm receipt of thismoney in your nominated bank
account, my partner and I will come overto your country to arrange for our
own share and possibly invest partof this money in your country.

Let honesty and trust be ourwatchword throughout this transaction. I
shall furnish you with somedetails about myself. Your prompt reply will
be highly appreciated.

Best regards.

Adams I.S.A



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