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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: "weihuali23@yahoo.com" <weihuali23@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:54:51 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: URGENT AND STYRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL

URGENT AND STYRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
FEDERAL MINISTRY OF FINANCE
FOREIGN DEBT RECONCILIATION PANEL
(CONTRACT PAYMENT, COSTING, INVESTIGATION AND APPROVAL)

From the Desk of : Dr. Mrs. Sara Ashby.


Attn: Funds Beneficiary


Re: Your Contract / Inheritance Payment .

I have gone through your contract payment/Inheritance file as directed by the presidency, and seen that it will take us a long process for your money to be released due to some irregularities detected in your file. during our investigation, we found out that you
have spent so much in trying to realize your contract/Inheritance payment, which did not even reflect in your file,and some top Government officials,expecially the officials of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) have been planning to claim your contract fund and
divert the money into their own private and codded bank account overseas and the method they want to use to achieve their evil plans was to keep demanding a lot of unnecessary and unwarranted fees and charges so that you will be tired and annoyed and abandon your
contract/Inheritnce payment so that they will now have the opportunity to claim your funds and then divert the money into their own private and codded account and that is why you have not received your contract /Inheritance payment uptil now, but i have an offer, which will at least help your financial stand until you receive your contract/Inheritance payment.

This offer is an amount from Federal Government LEFT-OVER. It is a total sum of US$17,600,000.00 (Seventeen Million, Six Hundred Thousand United States Dollars), which will be shared between you and My self in the ratio of 50% - 50%. this amount is not from your contract/Inheritance sum or have any thing related to your
contract/Inheritance sum, rather it is a left over from the amount used in paying local contractors and it is directly under my custody.
I am offering you this because i have seen that your contract fund will not be released on time until all the anomalies are rectified because some top Government officials here in Nigeria sitting on top of your contract?Inheritance funds.

The only things needed for this US$17.6 million to be transferred to your account under 48 hours are as follow: -

1) A bank account.
2) International Passport or Driving Liecence for identification .
3) Your maling address .
4) Your Telephone number.

Note that , the the US$17.6M is NOT year real contract /Inheritance payment owed to you by the Federal government of Nigeria,therefore there will be no bureaucracy or misfortune before you receive the funds into yor bank account.
NOTE THAT THE US$17.6M WILL BE TRANSFER TO YOUR ACCOUNT THROUGH BANK TO BANK KTT.

Yours truly,

Dr Mrs Sara Ashby.
Chairlady,Foreign Debts Reconciliation PaneI
Federal Ministry Of Finance

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