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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: =?iso-8859-1?q?Chukwuma=20John?= <johnfed13@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: johnfedlawfirm@yahoo.de
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 09:30:10 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Unwriting WILL(FIRST LADY)!!!


J'ai une nouvelle adresse mailVous pouvez maintenant m'écrire à : johnfed13@yahoo.fr



- FROM THE DESK OF CHUKWUMA JOHN(SAN) Dear Friend, I crave your indulgence for the unsolicited nature of this letter, but it was borne out of desperation and current development. Please bear with me. I am Barrister Chukwuma John a solicitor at law. I was the Personal attorney to Her Excellency Mrs. Stella Obasanjo, wife of the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria His Excellency President Olusegun Obasanjo, Herein after shall be referred to as my client. On the Sunday, October 23, 2005 , my client Her Excellency Mrs. Stella Obasanjo had traveled to Spain to undergo surgery and died from complications resulting from that surgery. I have contacted you to assist in repatriating the money she deposited with a finance security company, hoping she will use the money for her Good Works. I am the only person who knows about this as her personal Attorney. Nobody knows that she is the real owner of the fund,because i helped her to register the fund with another name (Bernard White) so as to prevent the Federal Ministry of Finance from probing the fund I seek your consent, to present you as the beneficiary of this fund, so that the proceeds of this Consignment valued cash of USD$81.2 million dollars can be transfer to you. Secondly, this will give us the power to continue the Good work of our Late first lady who was a Christian and love doing the WILL of God before she Died, her favorite quote is HEBREWS 11. God promises that His children will struggle in this life, but He also promises to be faithful. She built many motherless baby homes and homes for the old ones all over the world and her Last Wish was to use this Fund to build one of the world biggest less privilege home in Vietnam and other parts of the world . So i advice we put this fund into her kind of Good life style. This means 10% of the original fund is for me, 20% for you and 10% for our Legal fee for carrying out the Last Wish of a dead Woman and 60% for her unwritten (WILL) which is building of orphanage homes, schools, churches and others. I would get all necessary legal documents that would be needed and to back up this claim. All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us see this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of law. I have all documents backing the fund, see the site below to see Madam's death. www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/10/23/obasanjo.obituary Please get in touch with me through my private e-mail:johnfedlaw@voila.fr Please! Do not fail to send me your telephone number and fax number for essay communcatiobns, so that we can discuss extensively one-on-one as regards this deal. I look forward to your urgent response. Best Regards, Barr. Chukwuma John (SAN).


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