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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 Patrick Dickson" <patricdickson@mobimail.mn>
Reply-To: patric_dickson1964@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 07:35:55 +0100
Subject: INDICATE YOUR INTEREST


Hello,

This may come as a surprise to you since we have not met. I am Mr.Patric
Dickson,chief purchasing officer Africa Relief Fund Agency (ARF).Having
consulted with my colleagues, it is with trust and confident, I have the
privilege to request for your urgent assistance to transfer the sum of
fifteen million united state dollars(US$15.000.000.00)into a secured bank
account abroad. The above amount resulted from an increment of over-invoiced
contract amount executed, commissioned with Africa relief fund (ARF),and the
original foreign contactor has been paid some years sgo. This action was
intentional and since then the over-invoiced fund has been in the suspense
account of African Relief Fund (ARF) awaiting claim.

This Agency was empowered to administer trust fund of over eight hundred
million united state dollars ($800,000,000,00) for the provision of relief
materials to troubled spots in west Africa sub-region, we are presently in
Nigeria which is our head office, we expected to stay about two months here
before we move to any other country to provide relief materials to the
affected victims. We are now ready to transfer the fund
($15,000,000,00)overseas for our personal business investment, and that is
where your assistance is needed.

The simple mode of operation is just for us to apply for the release of the
fund in your name/company and you will serve as a sub-contractor among the
foreign contractors that supplied welfare materials to us. We will arrange
all the legal needful documents to back up this claim. Some of these
countries below have benefited from the materials supplied since some years
back,Sierra-leone, Liberia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria bomb blast
affected victims, Guinea Bissau etc.The materials supplied are Clothing of
various kinds,Blankets,Rice, Soya beans,Milk,Sugar, Salt, Drugs, Footwear.
Etc. Please if you are capable of working this project with us get back to
me quickly via this
email:patric_dickson1964@yahoo.com<email%3Apatric_dickson1964@yahoo.com>,and
also forward the under listed requirements to enable us facilitate and
secure the payment approval for immediate remittance of the fund into any of
your nominated bank account which you may provide.(1)Your full name, Your
Address, company name [if any]and Your Private Telephone number .
Preferably, open a new Bank account for this transaction or if you have a
trusted account already we can use it to receive the fund.

The total sum ($15,000,000,00) will be shared as follows.25% for you, 70%
for us and 5% will be used to pay back for any expenses incurred in the
course of consummating this deal. Actually this deal will involve some
financial expenses to secure all the needful legal documents to avoid any
arbitration of law both local and international, but we have some money to
proceed on the project which may not be enough. What we need from you is
your assistance to stand as one of our foreign sub-contractors that executed
contract with our agency awaiting for payment and we will remit the
US$15million to your account for us all. This deal is 100% risk free on
both sides, all parties involved will be very much protected by a silent but
active agreement whose greatest tent will be confidentiality.(FOR
SECURITY,PLEASE DO NOT DISCLOSE THE NATURE OF THIS DEAL TO ANYBODY)

You are free to ask question for further clarification in any area which you
do not understand in this proposal.I assure you that this is an infallible
deal.

We have 2 weeks to complete this deal as soon as we get your Positive
response.

Kind Regards

Mr.Patrick Dickson

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