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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: suleadams342003@gmail.com
Reply-To: suleadams342003@hotmail.com
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 21:58:03 +0700
Subject: Attention:1

Dear Sir/Ma,

I am the chairman of the Contract Payment Review Panel and executive
director of projects and engineering of the Federal Ministry of Petroleum
Resources Nigeria, I am in search of an agent to assist us in receiving the
sum of Ten million dollars ($22.5M) remitted by Key Tested Telegraphic
Transfer (K.T.T) to any foreign bank you will provide and subsequently
invest the funds in properties, agriculture or in any other lucrative
venture in your country You shall take 30% of the total amount for assisting
me.

If you are interested to assist me in this regard,You should please email me
through my private mail account and supply me with the following
particulars:
1 Your full name and address.
2 Your company name and address(if any).
3 Telephone and fax numbers
4 Your occupation
5 Age

So we can discuss the details of this transaction. Note that your area of
specialization is not relevant for the successful execution of this
transaction.
I await your reply to this mutually beneficial transaction.

Best wishes,

Dr. Sule Adams.


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