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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: kabiru turak <kttchambers07@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 23:26:51 -0800 (PST)
Subject: REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE


BARRISTER KABIRU TAHIRU TURAK CHAMBERS
Legal Practitioners / Notary Public
Blk 804- Law House Building
Lagos-Nigeria.
E-mail: kttchambers07@yahoo.com
Tel/fax: 234 1 555 9231

REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE
; ; &nbsp; SIR,

It is my humble pleasure to write you this letter Irrespective of the fact that you do not know me.

However, I am in search of a reliable and trustworthy Person that can handle a confidential transaction of this nature.

I am BARRISTER KABIRU TAHIRU TURAK, a family lawyer to our former military ruler, General Sani Abacha who died suddenly in power some years ago. Since his untimely demise, the family has suffered a lot of harassment from the regimes that succeeded him. The regime and even the present civilian government are made up of Abacha's enemies. Recently, the wife was banned from Traveling outside Kano State their home state as a kind of house arrest.

Although, a lot of money have been recovered from Mrs. Abacha since the death of her husband by the Present government, there's still huge sums of money in hard currencies that we have been able to move out Of the country for safe keeping to the tune of US$6.3 Million.

This money US$6.3Million is in three trunk boxes already in EUROPE, and if you are interested, we will prepare you as the beneficiary of the total funds, and you will share 25% of the total funds after clearance from the Security Company. For more and detailed information about this I refer you to this website.
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It may interest you to know that recently similar transaction was carried out with one MR. Paulo Zigalo of Milano Incorporated Italy who came to the security company after our agreement cleared one of the boxes containing $2.1million, on my arrival to Italy for our agreement this man was no where to be seen, this is how we lost one of the box containing $2.1million US dollars. So I am being careful this time.

Note, there is no risk involved in this project because l am involved, as Abaca’s confident. Therefore contact me on my Tel/fax: 234 1 555 9231 or email me kttchambers07@yahoo.com Please you should keep this transaction a top secret and we are prepared to do more business with you pending your approach towards this project. I await your urgent response.

Thanks.
Yours Faithfully
BARRISTER KABIRU TAHIRU TURAK


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