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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: (sent from abused email account)
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 01:07:49 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Dear Sir.


Dear Sir.
 
Please look into this email address enefiokudoh_2005@yahoo.com I don¢t know if some one send him my email address or not this enefiokudoh_2005@yahoo..com has been sending mail scan mails or 419 mails all the day of my life please is like my email address is been save in this his email address, how can you see that this man is sending 419 mails to people and you people deed not close his box.
 
Ok now bellow is the emails I have been receiving from him all the day, am very sure that this is 419 scam please make sure you close his email address so that he will not be sending people scam mails.
 
See the emails I receive from him bellow.
 
Thanks,
>From Mr. Dawuda Ojo.
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HIS FRIST EMAIL I RECEIVE.
>From MR. ENEFIOK UDOH.
from Nigeria.

Email {enefiokudoh_2005@yahoo.com}
ATTENTION SIR MADAM.
 
How are you together with your family members?, I think all is well.
Despite  the fact that I did not know you in person or  have i seen
you before but due to the reliable revelation,I decided to share this
lucrative opportunity with you, I have no other choice, so kindly
consider this message as vital, believing that sooner or later we will
be multimillonaires, First and formost, I have to introduce myself to
you. I AM MR Mr.Soarase pryl, THE FOREIGN OPERATIONS MANAGER OF OUR BANK here in my country, NIGERIA. I am married with four
children.
 
I want you to assist me in other to transfer the sum of Twenty One
Million United States Currency ($21,000,000.00) into your reliable
account as the Next of Kin to our Foreign Business partner , the
original owner of the fund. He was a foreigner and a multi company
holder who died in a plane crash with his family years ago, he
deposited the fund in our bank for his business expansion in Africa
unfortunately he met this sudden and untimely death and the worst
thing that happened was the wife who suppose to be the  successor of
the account died alongside with him.Since the deceased left no body behind to  claim the fund, as a
foreigner, you are in better position for that, and no body will come
for the claim after you have applied. If you are ready to assist me,
set up a new bank account or forward to me any one avialable so that
the process will commence .
 
I will guide you on how you should apply for the claim so that
everything will be smooth and correct. After the transfer, i will
resign and come over to your country for the sharing of the fund 50/50
base on the fact that it is two man business.Finally, note that you are not taking any risk because there will be a
legal back up as  we commence.

Further information will be given to you as soon as I receive your reply.

Kindly go ahead and send me your detailed information as following:
1. Your full name:
2. Your country
3. Your address:
4. Your professional occupation/position:
5. Your age:
6. Marital position:
7. Your private telephone (mobile) numbers:
8. Your private contact telephone number:
9. Your passport photograph or driver's license number:PLEASE REPLY ME
 VERY URGENT AT {enefiokudoh_2005@yahoo.com}Sincerely,
MR. ENEFIOK UDOH
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AGING
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Dear Friend,
 
 This message might meet you in utmost surprise, however,it's just my urgent need for foreign partner that made me to contact you for this transaction. I am a banker by profession from NIGERIA and currently holding the post of Director Auditing and Accounting unit of the bank.
 
I have the opportunity of transfering the left over funds ($8.5million USD.)of one of my bank clients who died along with his entire family on 31 july 2000 in a plane crash.You can confirm the genuiness of the deceased death by clicking on this web site
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm Hence,i am inviting you for a business deal where this money can be shared between us in the ratio of 50/50 If you agree to my business proposal.further details of the transfer will be forwarded to you as soon as i receive your return mail. have a great day. PLEASE GET BACK TO ME VERY FAST AT  enefiokudoh_2005@yahoo.com yours,
MR. ENEFIOK UDOH.
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AGING.
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Dear Friend,

I introduce myself as MR. ENEFIOK UDOH, finance director at ACCBank, Charlemont Place, Dublin, Ireland. A contracted staff of Perez and Hamilton contacted you earlier concerning Mr. Mohamed Abdul Ramah and an investment placed under our bank's management 10 years ago. I would respectfully request that you  keep the contents of this mail confidential and respect the integrity of the information you come by as a result of this mail. I contact you independently of our investigation and emphasize the reason of this communication. I would like to intimate you with certain facts that I believe would be of interest to you.
 
In 1997, the subject matter; Mohamed came to our bank to engage in business discussions with our private banking division. He informed us that he had a financial portfolio of Nine million United States dollars. After some time we did not hear from Mr Ramah again, I was then given the task to investigate his where about only to find out that he has died and he left no next of kin in his file, that is where you come in, I want you to act as the next of kin to the deceased.
 
I will explain more to you as soon as I get back your response with readiness to assist, for your assistance, you will have 35% of the funds and 65% goes to me.
 reply to my private email address: enefiokudoh_2005@yahoo.com
Note: Do not at any time contact me through my official email or phone for confidentiality.
MR. ENEFIOK UDOH.

 



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