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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: Axel Celder <celderaxel@centrum.cz>
Reply-To: celderaxel@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:14:02 +0800
Subject: proposal

As we are still both strangers. I work for the ministry of health in my Country, and by this letter I am representing and also acting on behalf of my senior colleagues [The Director- General and the social services manager] whose mandate I have gotten, To contact a trusted and reliable foreign based business person, concerning the business matter of mutual benefit to all. By this mandate given to me, we are in diredt need of a foreign partner to assist us in the transfer / investment of USDA 5,000,000 [FIVE MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS]. The key issues is the transfer and the subsequent investment, of the said sum, Three years ago Trinidad and Tobago government awarded contracts worth 54,000,000.00 U.S.D to the public for eligible contractors to bid for under the Ministry of Health, which many contractors tendered their bid, as a result, my Boss pick interest in the Chinese Company that entered an agreement with us to pay 5,000,000.00 U.S.D as kickback after when the contract is done, since the company has finished the work and all the equipment supplied and fixed are absolutely in order, and everything is working fine, and the Chinese Company have being paid 49,000,000.00 U.S.D, they informed us to get the balance from the government, since they are no more in Trinidad and Tobago we are finding it very difficult to claim the money from the government because we are working for the government, based on the aforementioned, we need a foreign partner who we make a claim for the money to be release by the government. We assure you that this transaction is 100% risk free and confidential. We are ready to go into agreement with you and also offer you a negotiable for putting together an investment portfolio. We shall guide you on what to do. The basis will be that a major company own a contract and subcontracted it to you .more often, big trading companies and firms of unrelated field win contracts and subcontract for execution, That is where you are going to come in as the person who they need to pay. Do not worry; everything is good as I have just said. We shall follow strictly all legal procedure entailed In our laws and international laws in transferring the funds to you. Please be informed that under the government monetary Policy, strategic positioned government Officials are not allowed to operate or own bank account overseas, Hence our need for a foreign partner to help us. We pray that you take the essence of this letter in Strict confidence, because my colleagues will not like to be expose. Note; that these funds have nothing to do with AL Qaeda or terrorist, it is very legitimate. We will give you the entire necessary document you need to back up yourself therein. This might be your opportunity in life, and is it absolute risk free there is nothing you need to worry about it easy as I have said before. If you are interested contact us via email: celderaxel@yahoo.com.cn

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