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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: officefile19@freenet.de
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:13:09 +0100
Subject: Contact Mr Ngozi Nkem Immediatel


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 japan. Presently i\'m in japan 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 and 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 last time I
appreciated your efforts at that time very much.

CONTACT MR NGOZI NKEM
IMMEDIATELY
Mr Ngozi Nkem
E-mail; ngozi_nkem18@excite.fr
Telephone;
+229 93 429 951

So feel free and get in touched with my secretary
Ngozi Nkem and instruct her where to send the check. And send her your
contact
information such as below
your full name ..............
home
address ...............
phone number .............
your sex age
..............
so that he will made the arrangement of sending your
cashier cheque to your designated address without any delay.

Please do
let me know immediately if you receive the cheque so that we can share
the joy after all the sufferness at that time ok, In the moment,
I’m very busy here because of the investment projects which me and
the new partner are having at hand .

Finally ,remember that I have
forwarded instruction to my secretary on your behalf to send the cashier
cheque to you as soon as you requested it and send your details
information without delay. So feel free to get in touch with my
secretary and he will send the cheque to you without any delay .

Best
Regards,
HON Jim Peters





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