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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.Richard Akuabia" <ayii31@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 07:54:48 +0300
Subject: Save our Soul,




Save our Soul,
Compliment of the season, I, am Mr. Richard Akuabia I, am a pioneer member
of Member of Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND), you can read better about
MEND when you log on to http://www.cfr.org/publication/12920/
I contacted you now on save our soul mission because our lives and that of
our children are in jeopardize since the Federal Government of Nigeria has
vehemently disobeyed the peace agreement brokered by the President Federal
Republic of Nigeria Alhaji Umaru Musa Yaradua.
During our operative period as militants in the creek, we manage to make a
savings of thirty five million United States Dollars, we made this funds
through most oil companies in our area of control so that we will not
attack them or destroy their oil installations.
Knowing too well that our future are not secured, we manage to smuggle
this amount to overseas to be precisely Belgium through the help of oil
vessels that ply oil from Nigeria to Brussels, then I personally being the
pioneer member deposited this sum with a security company in Brussels for
safe keeping.
But because of the means that we used to bring the funds to Brussels I
decided to packaged this funds into two trunk boxes and have it deposited
with security company in disguise as boxes of African Heritage pictures,
therefore the security company does not know the real content of the boxes
since they believe that the boxes are filled up with African Heritage
pictures.
Since we have reached a peace accord with Federal Government of Nigeria
our passports were seized from us and we are place on monthly allowance of
twenty thousand Naira which is less than two hundred United States Dollars
monthly, having passing through this ugly situation for the past nine
months now and our conditions are yet improve as promised by the Federal
Government of Nigeria I hereby contact you to assist me to retrieve this
boxes with the security company in Brussels and transfer this funds to any
of your bank account for safe keeping until the time that I can be able
sneak out of the country and come over to your country for disbursement
since I cannot travel out of the country because of my seized passport.
For assisting me in this regard we have accepted to give you 30% of the
total sum, while 70% will be for me, send me with your details to indicate
your interest on assisting me then I will disclose the details of the
transaction to you.
I decided to contact with the firm hope that you will not betray me
because the demurrage fees are increasing on daily basis since I can no
longer send demurrage fees to the security company any longer because of
my present situation.
Waiting for your urgent reply as soon as possible.
Thank you and God Bless,
Mr. Richard Akuabia







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