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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: "fedison.ogba" <fedison.ogba@bol.com.br>
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:20:31 -0300
Subject: please get back

From Fedison Ogbar;

Please this is not a junk mail. My name is Fedison Ogbar, an accountant working with a Commercial Bank here in Lomé Republic of Togo. I'm contacting you for a business deal, to present you as the next of kin to Mr. Mohamed El Abdul our deceased client so that the proceeds of his account with our Bank amounting to ($ 6 million US dollars) can be paid to you and then you and I will share the money.

I know that you will be surprised to receive this message since we have not met before, however this is the only way I can contact you at this moment due to the nature of this deal. We shall know ourselves better as soon as you indicat e interest to work with me. I just want you to know that I have had everything planned out so that we shall come out successful, all I require is your honest co-operation to enable us see this deal through.

I guarantee that this deal will be executed under all legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. Late Mr.Mohamed El Abdul is an Egyptian business man based here in my country. He use to supply goods to most of the Oil servicing company here in my country before he got a contract with the Kellogg Brown & Root, a subsidiary of the Houston-based oil company Halliburton in Libya last year 2010.

Before his death he made a numbered fixed deposit for years, with a value of (Six million United States Dollars) in my branch. Upon maturity last week, our bank have sent several notices to him, we later found out that he was killed on 3 of Mar 2011. According a reliable information I gathered, he was in a five-vehicle convoy with some of the oil workers traveling from Brega-Arabiya when the bomb hit their car.

The facts is that Mr.Mohamed El Abdul confided in me when he made the deposit, as a matter of facts no one except me has the details of his deposit in our bank. The $6,000,000.00 (Six million United States Dollars) is still lying in our bank, and no one will ever come forward to claim it.

What bothers me most is that according to the laws of my country, at the expiration of 3 years the funds will be reverted to the ownership of the Togo government, if nobody come up as the deceased next of kin to claim the funds.

If you will agree to work with me please reach me now for more details.
I will be looking forward to hearing from you
Regards
Fedison Ogbar
Email: fedisono@yahoo.com

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