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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: "Dr. Charls Obi" <dr_charlsobi2k6@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:53:38 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: VERY URGENT


FROM: Dr Charls Obi
Federal Ministry of Finance
foreign exchange and currency control Dept.

Attn: Approved Beneficiary

Dear Sir,

RESTRICTIONS ON WIRE TRANSFER

My name is Dr Charls Obi works with the foreign exchange and currency control department of Federal Ministry of Finance.

I got your contact from the input reference lists of foreign
Exchange approved for claim payments/inheritance of US$9.5 million which were to be suspended due to some impendiments discovered. However, these impendiments
have given rooms for the prolonged obstacles and interruptions on every attempts to receive the duly approved fund. But unless these impendiments is cleared, you can never receive fund.

In view of the above, I have the interest to assist you to
normalize the status of your claim and put it in benefit again, hence from all indications, your claim received 100% payment approval from my predisessors.

Also, there were severe restriction and conditions imposed on fund transfer which have made the operations of wire transfer very difficult and impossible from any Bank in Africa and Middle East to send huge transfer. Moreover, US Dollar Currency on movement investigating team,
FBI, American Secret Services, IRS, and other funds on movement security operatives at large have beefed up combat operations to confiscate such funds.(if discovered)

However, we have strong means of delivering your funds to your address as consignment. This is through DIPLOMATIC means, where your fund will be carefully packaged as consignment and delivers to your address as ordinary consignment. I will make the arrangement with the specialized officials to secure the DIPLOMATIC immunity coverage to
ensure risk free exercise. This arrangement is highly protected to beat any security operatives.

If you accepts this stong method, we shall have a deal, and I
will make the arrangements for you and ensure that you received your fund within 14 days of receiving your reply.You are requested to send your safe delivery address to enable us
enroute the Diplomatic arrangement correctly, reconfirm your
approved amount total to ensure that you are the rightful recipient and your personal ID, hence I will not like to deal with wrong people. Every documents and papers which legalizes the transaction will be delivered to you through any available express mail delivery services before the
consignment arrives in your country, which you will present on

I assure you 100% success guarantee. Try to call me for other
important information.

In your reply indicate your private phone/cell and fax number for prompt communication.
Thanks for your good understanding.

Best regards
Dr Charls Obi

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