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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.Martins Greg." <mmawahab@mailer.eun.eg>
Reply-To: martinsgreg68@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 17:26:59 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: Dear Friend,




Dear Friend,

This may come as a surprise to you since we have not met.I am
Mr.Martins Greg.,a member and the chief purchasing officer Africa
Relief Fund Agency (ARF) .Having consulted with my colleague, it is
with trust and confident,i have the privilege to request for your
urgent assistance to transfer the sum of fifteen million united
state dollars(US$15.000.000.00) into a secured bank account
abroad.The above amount resulted from an increment of over-invoiced
contractamount executed,commissioned with Africa relief fund
(ARF),and paid for about two years ago to the original foreign
contractor. This action was intentionaland since then the
over-invoiced fund has been in the suspense account ofAfrican Relief
Fund (ARF) awaiting claim.

This Agency was empowered to administer trust fund well over five
hundred million united state dollars ($800,000,000,00) for the
provision of relief materials to troubled spots in west Africa
sub-region, we are presently inNigeria, our head office, we expected
to stay about two months here before we move to any other country to
provide relief materials to the affected victims.We are now ready to
transfer the fund ($15,000,000,00)overseas for ourpersonal business
investment, and that is where your assistance is needed.

The simple mode of operation is just for us to apply for the release
of the fund in your name/company and you will serve as a
sub-contractor among the foreign contractors that supplied welfare
materials to us.We will arrange all the legalneedful documents to
back up this claim.Some of these countries below have benefited from
the materials supplied since some years
back,Sierra-Leone,Liberia,Democratic Republic of Congo,Nigeria bomb
blast affected victims,Guinea
Bissau etc.

The materials supplied are Clothing of various kinds,Blankets,Rice,
Soya beans,Milk,Sugar, Salt, Drugs, Footwear. etc. Please if you are
capable of working this project with us get back to me quickly via
this email:........................,and also forward the under
listed requirements to enable us facilitate and secure the payment
approval for immediate remittance of the fund into any of your
nominated bank account which you may provide.(1)Your full name,Your
Address, company name [if any]and Your Private Telephone number .
Preferably, open a new Bank account for this transaction or if you
have a trusted account already we can use it to receive the fund.

The total sum ($15,000,000,00) will be shared as follows.30% for
you, 70% for us. What we need from you is your assistance to stand
as one of our foreign sub-contractors that executed contract with
our agency awaiting for payment,and secure the needful legal
documents in your name/company to secure approval payment and the
fund US$15million will be remitted to your account for us all.
This deal is 100% risk free on both sides,all parties involved will
be very much protected by a silent but active agreement whose
greatest tent will be confidentiality.(FOR SECURITY,PLEASE DO NOT
DISCLOSE THE NATURE OF THIS DEAL TO ANYBODY)

If there are some inscrutable to this proposal you are free to ask
question for further clarification.All i will assure you, this is an
infallible deal.It can not fail with your corporation.

Submit your personal details to my email: martinsgreg68@yahoo.com

We need just 2 weeks to complete this deal as soon as we get your
positive response.

Kind Regards
Mr.Martins Greg.



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