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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: "Frist office" <ffristoffice1@latinmail.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 11:48:14 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Contact him now with the email olumide_20007@yahoo.fr



Dear Friend,
Longest time and happy day.I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting those funds transferred under the cooperation of a new partner from uraguay. Presently i'm in uraguay for investment projects with my own share of total sum. mean while, i didn't forget your past efforts and attempts to assist me in transferring this funds despite that it failed us some how.

Now contact my secretary in Benin his name is Mr Olumide Jimoh on his e-mail address stated ( olumide_20007@yahoo.fr) Ask him to send you the total Amount of $950,000.00 u.s dollars which i kept for your compensation for all the past efforts and attempts to assist me in this matter. I appreciated your efforts at that time very much.

So feel free and get in touched with my secretary Mr Olumide Jimoh i instructed him where to send the cheque. And send him your contact information such as below

your full name ..............
home address ...............
phone number ............
your sex, age ...............

So that he will submit it to the courier company where i directed him to mail the cashier cheque to your designated address without any delay.

Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share the joy after all the sufferness at that time ok, In the moment, I’m very busy there because of the investment projects which i and the new partner are having at hand . Finally ,remember that I have forwarded instruction to my secretary on your behalf to instruct the courier company to deliver the cashier cheque to you as soon as you send your details information without delay.

So feel free to get in touch with my secretary he will send the cheque to you without any delay .

Best Regards,
HON GANI IGEH ESQ




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