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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: "Eng. Anthony Roger." (may be fake)
Reply-To: <inquiry@mail15.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 06:41:31 +0100
Subject: HOW ARE YOU DOING?

Attn: Please,

I am Eng. Anthony Roger, an engineer and a citizen of South Africa who works in an oil corporation in Angola.

I am contacting you based on the information I gathered from a friend of mine who knows little about you.I have a very good business deal that requires serious attention and which I would like to partner with you.I work as an engineer in Angola with one of the biggest oil company in Angola name of the company (withheld) for security reason`s. I heads the engineering section of this company, and handles all contract`s with engineering section. Two years ago we awarded a contract to a German company that worth`s US$68million dollars to supply drilling equipments to our company, but because of my position as the chief engineer and the chairman of the contract tender committee I could be able to over invoiced this contract to the tune of US$88MILLION DOLLARS. The German company who supplied these equipments has been paid and the balance of US$20million dollars is still lying in safe account with a bank in Europe. I contacted you because I would like to use your name or the name o
f your company as one of the comp

Presently, I am spending my annual leave in Ghana and this will help us to facilitate this deal. Note that there is no risk involved in this business, as I have taken all the underground work for a successful business transaction.
All I need from you is to provide me with your personal/company`s full details, these information will be used to raise a file of claim in your company`s name. As soon as I receive your details, I will forward them to the bank where the money is presently deposited in Europe, I will formally present your company as the company who executed the contract with us and the process of transferring the money to you will begin. As soon as the money is in your place, I will resign and come over to your place for the sharing of the money and I hope to invest the money in your place. At the end of this deal you will get 35% of the total money 60% for me and the remaining 5% will be mapped out for any expenses that will be in-cured on the course of this deal.I would have suggested that we have a meeting before proceeding, but I don`t know if you will be chanced for such meeting.We shall also employ the services of a lawyer who will procure all the documents we shall need to make this tra
nsaction legal.

Finally, please don`t be scared or skeptical about this deal it is a clean business as the money is not a proceed from drug or illegal money laundering. If there is anything you need from me that will make you believe that you are doing a clean business, let me know and I will be obliged to provide you with that, and on my part if there is something that I will need from you to assure me that you will not sit on the money when it is transferred to you, I will request for that and I believe you will also provide that to me.I will wait for your prompt response to enable us proceed without further delay.
Please indicate your willingness to take part in this transaction by responding with your full physical address, telephone number/cell phone and a copy of your Id, or international passport.

Until then have a lovely day,

Best Regards,

Eng. Anthony Roger.

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