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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: "Justus O.Duru" <dealproject66k@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: juokoyeduru@yahoo.fr
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:07:56 -0700 (PDT)
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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