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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: "barrister mohammed jawaid" <barrmohammedjawaid29@hotmail.co.uk>
Reply-To: barrmohammedjawaid@yahoo.co.nz
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:32:54 +0000
Subject: FROM THE DESK OF BARRISTER MOHAMMED JAWAID.

FROM THE DESK OF BARRISTER MOHAMMED JAWAID.
OFFICE ADDRESS: 15B IGBO CLOSE, SUITE 9 LAWRENCE BUILDING,
LAGOS-NIGERIA.
You can contact me through my private Email Address or
Telephone (barrmohammedjawaid@hotmail.com)

Attn:Friend,

It is my pleasure to reach you for an urgent business fund transfer which I need your assistance. I am BARRISTER MOHAMMED JAWAID, an advocate and Solicitor. I am the Personal Attorney to late mahmood , who used to work with NIGERIAN NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION.
 
On the 21st of April 2006, my client was involved in a car accident along Sagbama Express Road, leaving behind his wife and two children who are at the aged of 6 And 3 years respectively.
Since then, members of her late husband immediate family has constantly harassed and intimidated his wife, Nancy (it is actually the tradition of their native land for the deceased brothers to inherit his properties). They have collected and seized the late husband properties and collected the bank account papers, for carefully confiscate and shared his cars as well as documents to his two houses and sent her packing out of her husband’s house.

All my attempts and several other attempts by friends at resolving the crisis by calling the parties involved to a meeting has unsuccessful. The law court could not handle the issue since the traditional rulers have come out to say it’s their tradition.

Recently Mrs. Nancy has intimate me about US$15.5million which her late husband lodged in with a security company and Upon I investigation I discovered that her late husband made the money through some over-invoiced contract he awarded during his tenure as the head of CONTRACT/PROCUREMENT DEPARTMENT of THE NIGERIA NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION (NNPC) .She told me that one of the relatives who used to live with them and probably knows about the fund has instigated other members of the family against her, with the view to collecting from her the CERTIFICATE OF DEPOSIT to this fund and probably collecting the fund for sharing among them selves.

I am writing this letter on her behalf, seeking for your assistance in receiving this fund on her behalf for safe-keeping and possibly investing it to yield profits for the upkeep of her and her children. This is her last hope of training her two children and living a meaningful life on earth. On your acceptance to receive and keep this fund for her, you will be entitle to 30% of the total sum, 10% has been set aside to take care of all expenses (including taxes) that might arise in the course of this transfer while the remaining 60% is for her and her family.

She has in her position the original documents that can be used for effective transfer of the fund to you without hitches. All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us see this transaction through.
 
I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. Please get in touch with me on my private Email for more detail. (barrmohammedjawaid@hotmail.com)

If there is anywhere you do not understand kindly inform me for clarification.
 
Thanks and stay bless.
 
BARRISTER MOHAMMED JAWAID
PUBLIC RELATIONSHIP

 



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