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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.James Obi" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <jamesobi@lajt.hu>
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 05:44:19 -0800
Subject: Partnership Request

Attention:President/CEO,
I am Mr.James Obi a member of the Federal Government of Nigeria Contract Award and Monitoring Committee in the Nigeria National Petroleum
Corporation (NNPC) Sometime ago, a contract was awarded to a foreign firm in NNPC by my Committee. This contract was over invoiced to the
tune of US$21.5M. U. S. Dollars. This was done deliberately. The over- invoicing was a deal by my committee to benefit from the project.
We now want to transfer this money which is in a suspense Account with NNPC into any Overseas Account which we expect you to provide for us.

SHARE: -
For providing the account where we shall remit the money into, you will be entitled to 30% of the money, 60% will be for me and my partners
while 10% has been mapped out from the total sum to cover any expenses that may be incurred by us during the course of this transfer,both locally
and international expenses.

It may interest you to know that a similar transaction was carried out with one MR. PATRICE MILLER, President of Crane International Trading Corp.
of 153 East 57th St., 28th floor, NY10022, TEL:(212)-308-7788 AND TELEX: 6731689. The deal was concluded and all covering documents were forwarded
to MR. MILLER to authenticate the claim.

Once the funds were transferred, MR. MILLER presented his Bank with all the legal documents and remitted the whole funds to another Bank Account
and disappeared completely. My colleagues were shattered, as such opportunities do not come all the time.

I would require the following: -

1. Your company's name, address, telephone and fax numbers.
2. Your bank account and address where the money will be remitted.

The above information would be used to make formal applications as a matter of procedure for the release of the money and onward transfer to your
account.It does not matter whether or not your company does contract projects of this nature described here.The assumption is that your company won
the major contract and subcontracted it out to other companies. More often than not, big trading companies or firms of unrelated fields win major
contracts and subcontracts to more specialized firms for execution of such contracts.

We have strong reliable connections and contacts at the Central Bank of Nigeria,as well as the Federal Ministry of Finance and we have no doubt
that all the money will be released and transferred if we get the necessary foreign partner to assist us in this deal.

Therefore, when the business is successfully concluded we shall through our same connections withdraw all documents used from all the concerned
Government Ministries for 100% security.We are ordinary civil servants and we will not want to miss this once in a lifetime opportunity to get rich.

We want this money to be transferred to the overseas Accounts for us, before the starts Auditing of all Federal Governmentowned Parastatals in this
Financial Quater.

Please contact me immediately through my private email adress below whether or not you are interested in this deal. If you are not, it will enable
me scout for another foreign partner to carry out this deal.But where you are interested, send the required details aforementioned herein through
my email adress below as time is of the essence in this business.

I wait in anticipation of your fullest co-operation.

Yours faithfully,
Mr.James Obi

Email: jamesobi@lajt.hu

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