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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: "Biko Yetumuu" <biko_yetumuu019@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 16:42:30 +0000
Subject: From Mr Biko Yetumuu.....

My Dear ,
I am Engineer,Biko Yetumuu,The Project Engineer of (ASIP)-Dakar Senegal
And ASIP for the purposes of explanationmeans---AGRICULTURAL SECTOR
INVESTMENT PROJECT (ASIP) This is a World Bank sponsored Multi-Million U.S
Dollars Agricultural project in Senegal Forgive my indignation,if this
letter comes to you as a surprise and offends you, because you have no prior
knowledge of this. I got your contact during my search for a reliable person
to entrust this huge money transfer project with.

As the Chief Engineer in charge of this project,I and my colleagues involved
in this project have agreed to seek your mutual partnership into a huge
money transfer project. We wish to transfer the sum of Sixteen million five
hundred thousand united state Dollar ($16.5M) from the project Fund into
your personal or company’s Bank account for our personal use This fund
originates from over invoiced estimate we made for materials at the project
sites. This over invoiced sum was deliberately hatched out and carefully
protected with all attendant lope holes sealed off It was our Consensus to
seek your assistance to provide us with the facilities to transfer this
money out of Africa

This is born out of our belief in the non-stable economy and spurious
political nature of this Continent-region,if we agree to work together as
partners on this,then this sum of ($16.5M) will be transferred into your
Bank Account through EKO BANK INTERNATIONAL Dakar Senegal,because that is
the Bank where the world Bank Grants for the projects, of which I am in
charge, and is deposited. Based on the law and ethics of our services to
ASIP, we as civil servants are not allowed to operate a foreign account.

This is the more reason why we need your assistance to provide an account
that can hold this funds when transferred to your country. It is how ever
agreed, as the person providing the account to secure the funds in your
country,you are offered 20% of the total sum as commission,75% will be held
on trust for us for an investment purposes in your country, while 5% is set
aside to reimburse expenses incurred in the course of executing the project.
The project is expected to be successfully completed within 14 days if you
accord us the maximum cooperation needed from you, hope to retire peacefully
and lead an honorable business life afterwards.
There is no risk involved.
I wait to hear from you.
Best regards.
Engineer.Biko Yetumuu,

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