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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: "Engineer Eric Dike" <engineereric@sify.com>
Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 20:31:38 +0700 (ICT)
Subject: WORK WITH US




Engineer Eric Dike,
Department of Budget and Planning
Ministry of Petroleum,
Lagos-Nigeria
Tel: +234-8082845746

Your candid attn:

REF: URGENT CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL.


Most competent people are choosen for competent jobs and assignments,and
with that due respect have we also choosen to select you and contact you
on this very confidential matter. Our Nigerian Chamber of Commerce and
industry offers variety of names of notable people from your part of
theGlobe. That was where I got your information from. Therefore, after due
deliberation with my partners, we decided to forward to you this
proposal.We believe that you would be in a position to help us in our bid
to transfer the sum of US$41.5M(Forty-0ne million, five hundred thousand
dollars only) into a foreign account. We shall make it 100% legal as much
possible as you would want.We are members of the special committee for
budget and planning of the Ministry of Petroleum. This committee is
principally concerned with contract appraisals and approval of contracts
in order of priorities as regards CAPITAL PROJECTS of the Federal
Government of Nigeria. With our positions, we have successfully secured
for ourselves the sum of Forty-one Million, Five Hundred Thousand United
States Dollars(US$41.5M).

We are working with the present Democratically elected Government in my
country, and we are seeking the support of Foreign Government to win the
next election coming up, which the race has started. So they have given
directive to all Federal Parastatals to settle all Foreign Contractors
being owed for contract that they have done. Therefore, our plan is to
include your name as one of the contractors being owed in our
corporation.What we need from you is to provide a safe Account into which
the funds will be transferred since Government Officials in my country are
not allowed by our laws to Operate Foreign Accounts. It has been agreed
that you will be compensated with US$8.3 Million of the remitted
funds.US$31.125Million belongs to us, while US$2.075Million will be set
aside to offset expenses and pay the necessary taxes.It may interest you
to know that two years ago a similar transaction was carried out with one
Mr. Patrice Miller, the C.E.O of Crane International Trading Corporation
at number 135, East 57th street, 28th floor, New York 10022, with
Telephone (212)308-7788 and Telex Number 6731689.After the agreement
between both of us in which he was to take 25% of the money as his share,
the money was duly transferred into his Account. We were disappointed on
our arrival in New York as we were reliably informed that Mr. Patrice
Miller was no longer on that address while his Telephone and Telex
Numbers have been reallocated to somebody else. That was how we lost
US$27.5M to Mr.Patrice Miller.

This time around we would not want you to be like that. We need a more
reliable and trustworthy person and a reputable Company to do this
business with, hence we contacted you. So if you can prove yourself to be
trusted and interested in this deal then we are prepared to do business
with you. What we want from you is the assurance that you will let us have
our share when this amount of US$41.5M is transferred into your
account.If this proposal satisfies you, please contact us, so we can
advice you on the modalities of the transaction. All modalities of this
transfer, have been worked out and once started will not take more than 7
Banking days with the absolute support of all concerned. This transaction
is 100% safe and risk free now and after the transfer. Kindly treat this
as urgent and very confidential.

Best regards.
Engineer Eric Dike,
Department of Budget and Planning
Ministry of Petroleum,
Lagos-Nigeria
Tel: +234-8082845746

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