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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: Mr Justus Duru <drywilliamsapp@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: juokoyeduru@yahoo.fr
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:21:05 +0100 (CET)
Subject: I AM THROUGH WITH MY COURSE IN UK.



Dear William,

I AM THROUGH WITH MY COURSE IN UK.

Compliment of the day to you Mr. William.

I wrote a letter to you last October which bounced back to me undelivered. Believing you may have changed your address due to our long communication gap, I decided to source for your current address over the internet by using your initials. That was how I got this your current e-mail address and I am hopeful that my message would be delivered this time. In my October 2007 undelivered letter, I tried to warn you against taking any wrong steps towards claiming your contract inheritance fund from the Federal Republic of Nigeria and urged you to wait for a while till I am through with my course when I would be better equipped with necessary skills that could help us have this funds pushed out of the central computer of the Central Bank of Nigeria.


Having completed my IT course overseas, I am now much ready to assist you since I have been recalled and also elevated in my ministry even though I am to resume in 6 weeks time. Now I am in a very good position to enforce the release of this your unsettled contract inheritance claims but I know you will find it extremely difficult to believe due to some disappointments you may have already gone through in the hands of some inexperienced agents while I was on course.

I want to tell you that in this era of information technology, it is very simple to retrieve your funds and have it credited into your account just by using a simple computer that is connected to the internet. I have designed a platform that is capable of retrieving your funds on a Per-transaction (daily or weekly) installment of US$500,000.00. All your struggles of the past were not really necessary but you had to go through them out of ignorance of what is really in vogue.

If you can have faith in me, I will contact you again with my full plans on how to retrieve this funds from the Nigerian treasury. I do not want to talk much here for security reasons. First, I want to establish the fact that you are still alive and waiting for my return as I pleaded prior to my departure for the UK . I am now a guru in Information Technology (IT) and I prefer to now go straight to the point and get immediate result without going through the rigors of endless government bureaucratic and make-believe bottlenecks?. I have designed an Open Financial Exchange (OFX) which is a Personal Financial Management (PFM) scaleable platform capable of instalmentally siphoning your funds out of the database of the Central Bank of Nigeria without any traces and risks whatsoever.

This is purely e-commerce and the OFX server would simply be acting as a Bridge between the CBN telex room and your receiving banking co-ordinate. It would amaze you how easy your funds shall be retrieved. So get back to me if you want me to do this for you since I have built/designed the platform already. I want to make some money and contacts using my current skills. I therefore would assume you are not receiving my messages in the event that I do not hear from you within the next two days. Hence, I would have to assist any other contractor who may show interest in this my designed platform since I have made enough effort to re-establish our contact.

Regards,

JUSTUS OKOYE DURU


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