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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: "SEA PETROL OIL AND GAS COMPANY INTERNATIONAL" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mrhumpheryenechukwu@live.com>
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 03:48:42 -0700
Subject: HELLO DEAR FRIEND:YOUR ASSISTANCE WILL BE APPRECIATED.

Greetings Dear Friend

This letter would definitely come to you as a surprise owing to
the fact that you and I have never had any prior communication My
names is Mr Humphrey Enechukwu,I am the
Executive Director, Finance & Account Department , You
can know more about me and my Company by checking on the link here;
http://seapetrol.com/staffmgt.html
I write to know if you will be interested in working with me on a deal
that can make us millionaires if we can be sincere with each other as
well as having mutual respect for one another.

I am writing to solicit your assistance in the transfer of
US$1,700,000.00. This fund is the excess of what my branch in which I
am the Executive Director, Finance & Account Department made as profit
during the last year. I have already submitted an approved end of the year
report for the year 2010 to my head office here in Lagos and they will
never know of this
excess.

I have since then, placed this amount of US$1,700,000.00 on a
suspense account without a beneficiary.

Now the bank is very anxious to know who is the real beneficiary of the
funds because they have made a lot of profits with the funds.

As the Executive Director, Finance & Account Department of the Company, I
cannot be directly connected to this money thus I am impelled to request
for your assistance to receive this money into your bank account.

I intend to part 40% of this fund to you while 60% shall be for me. I do
need to stress that there are practically no risk involved in this.It's
going to be a bank-to-bank transfer. All I need from you is to stand as
the original depositor of this fund.


There is US$1,700,000.00 in the said account ,and each transaction will be
US$500,000(this is the maximum amount that can be transferred once by the
bank) and done Two times in a week, which gives us a weekly return of
US$1000,000. the bank should be able to transfer US$1.500,000.00 and the
remaining balance within 5 working days.These transfer procedures is as a
result of the new law passed out by the apex bank of my country

Note: that if l get your response today,it will only take 5
working days and this fund will be wired into your account.

Awaiting your response
Thanks,
Mr.Humphrey Enechukwu.


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