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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: diod.donna@aol.com
Reply-To: filesdesk4u2@blumail.org
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:05:57 +0100
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL..

CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL

Good day,

I am Mr. Donatus Diop, a third age project consultant presently working with Sisk Uk constructions a leading sectorial service providing firm (http://www.sisk.co.uk/sisk/sisk/www/default.asp?magpage=9&site_id=3) based here in UK. I got your contact address from an associate working with the uk Export Promotion Council.

I and my colleagues are officials in charge of offshore remittance in this establishment. We are seeking your assistance to transfer of [£9,000,000.00] NINE MILLION GREAT BRITAIN POUNDS] to your account for further private investment.

Please note that the nature of your job/business does not matter and you will be better informed when I hear from you. This amount accrued from an over-invoiced contract amount with London Petroleum Refineries Limited for the construction of an Oil Refinery Sub-stations and maintenance of the additional
refinery complex that was commissioned in 1974 to expatriate companies. The contract was originally valued for One Hundred and Twenty Seven Million Great Britain Pounds (£127,000,000.00), but we manipulated the figure to read One Hundred and Thirty Six Million Great Britain Pounds (£136,000,000.00). The extra (£9,000,000.00) Nine Million is what we want to transfer to your account
for our own personal use.

This contract has been completely executed and the original contractors have been paid their entire contract sum. We have agreed to remunerate you with 30% because it is impossible for us to claim the amount here in UK without foreign collaboration. 10% has been mapped out for any miscellaneous expenses incurred by either party during this business such as taxation in your country upon arrival of the funds into your account, and 60% for my colleagues and myself.

All modalities to effect the payment and subsequent transfer of this money have been worked out. This transaction is 100% risk free but requires 100 percent confidentiality. This is a golden opportunity, which must not be allowed to slip out of any careless acts and utterances. We chose you for this transaction because we believe that good friends can be discovered and businesses such as this cannot be realized without trust. You can be rest assured that your security has been considered before you were contacted. All the required paper work to facilitate this payment has already been put in place prior to contacting you. We believe from your profile that your experience and status will be of utmost essential to us and to the benefit of both parties. I will let you have the details in my next message, but in summary, the fund would be paid to you from the financial institution where it is presently deposited as soon as the filing and documentation process is concluded in your name.

In your reply, do include your Current Telephone and Fax Numbers for an
effective communication to enable us start the process.



Thanks and best regards in anticipation of your response.


Best Regards
Mr. Donatus C. Diop


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