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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: "SENATOR DAVID MARK" <info@senatehouse.org>
Reply-To: senatordavidmark11@live.com
Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 09:19:35 -0400
Subject: RE.CONFIDENTIAL / CASH PAYMENT DELIVERY

From the Desk of Senator David Mark,
Senate President,Federal Republic Of Nigeria.
Asokoro District,Area F,Garki-Abuja.
Direct Mobile TEL: +234_8165413640


RE.CONFIDENTIAL / CASH PAYMENT DELIVERY

Attention: Sir/Madam,

I Am Senator David Mark, the senate president,Federal Republic Of
Nigeria,(upper chamber), I decided to contact you based on the information we
gathered concerning your contract/inheritance funds, which we are still
unable to pay you.

After our yesterday sitting concerning foreign matters and debts
reconciliation,we discovered through our payment files that your
contract/inheritance payment are still unpaid to you and we tried to find out
why you have not received your payment up till this moment and we could not
find out any good reason why the officials of our apex bank decided to stop
your payment and we also discovered in our files that you have made several
payment in order to receive your payment but all to no avail.

We have summoned some of our officials like: Dr. Tunde Lemo, Prof.. Charles
Soludo,Dr. James Okuku and Mrs. Stella Dike and the rest of the directors to
query them why they have not paid you after all the time and money you have
spent so far and at the end of our query and investigation we discovered that
they want to frustrate you so that you will abandon your funds for them to
divert into their personal account for there personal use.

Based on this we have stopped them from handling any foreign
ontractors/inheritance payments to avoid them not to tarnish the image of our
country and bank .so if you are in any way communicating or dealing with any
body or person(s) in regards to your payment, you are now advised to stop and
any money you send to any of them is at your own risk.

For the fact that your payment has been delayed for so long with us and you
have gone many ways to receive the payment by bank to bank transfer all to no
avail because of the stop order and demands of several certificates and
documentations. We have therefore concluded after our yesterday meeting with
the Presidency that all the ontractors/inheritance beneficiaries will be
receiving their overdue payment via Cash Diplomatic Payment Delivery Direct to
your door step where you will receive your payment.This is the only way you
will receive your payment without stress or more expenses.

All the necessary arrangements regarding the delivery of your payment has been
put to place only waiting to hear from you as soon as you receive this message
today.

As soon as we hear from you, we shall disclose to you the amount to be paid to
you and how the money is arranged for delivery and the name of the person in
charge of delivering the money to you.

After going through this mail, you are required to furnish us with the
following information below so to avoid impostors or paying to the wrong
person(s).

1. Your full house address:
2. Your identity such as, international passport or driver's license:
3. Your contact cell phone numbers:
4. Your Full Name:

Note: It was mandated by Federal Government of Nigeria to finalize with your
payment on or before next week Wednesday so as to update our payment record
before the month runs out. Therefore, you are advice to respond to this
message immediately and call me as you read this mail.

Best Regards,
Senator David Mark,,
Senate President,Federal Republic Of Nigeria.
Asokoro District,Area F,Garki-Abuja.
Direct Mobile TEL: +234_8165413640

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