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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: "Dr. Kayode Jonathan" <mrazizzmohd1@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: dr.kayode.jonathan@officeliveusers.com
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:22:07 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: M. Schneider Energy Nig (MSEN) Ltd.


Dear friend,

It is with utmost sincerity and good faith that I wish to intimate you on the beneath business. I contacted you with an act of providence and utmost faith believing that you can be trusted and capable of handling this business proposal. I therefore apologize for infringing your privacy.

I am Dr. Kayode Jonathan, adviser to M. Schneider GMBH Austria, with a Registered Company named: M. Schneider Energy Nig (MSEN) Ltd.

The aim of this message is to solicit for your partnership in receiving a certain amount of money of which I will disclose to you upon confirmation that you are interested. These funds stand the risk of being frozen if we do not make arrangement to secure it in a foreign company/corporate bank account.

For urgent and confidential discussions, kindly send to me your personal and direct telephone number for further discussions and to enable me send you all relevant documents involved in this proposal. Be advised that you or your organization is risk free from any side of this transaction because we shall secure a High Court Order to protect your involvement in this transaction.

Upon the receipt of your feedback, I will inform you the amount involve to enable you start your commission/percentage that shall be offered to you or your company. We shall commence the transfer of the funds immediately we receive the following information’s.

1. The name of the recipient/beneficiary.

2. The company's name, address, telephone/fax numbers.

The above information’s shall be used to put up authorization letter and clearance from the Ministry of Finance for immediate approval of the fund transfer to any bank account as will be provided by you.

I have here a link to better highlight you of this transaction.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200712210429.html

Your urgent message is being awaited.

Yours faithfully,

Dr. Jonathan Kayode.
For: M. Schneider Energy Nig (MSEN) Ltd

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