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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: "Mr.Rodwell Adebola" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <rodwelviae@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2012 14:36:36 +0100
Subject: REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS

Mr.Rodwell Adebola,
234 Victoria Street,
Lagos state Nigeria.
Your Urgent Attention,
 
REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP.
 
First, I must solicit your strictest confidence in this information and transaction, virtue of its nature as being utterly
confidential and 'top secret.
 
I am Mr.Rodwell Adebola, a senior accountant with Mobil Petroleum Nigeria unlimited, I got your E-mail contact on my
confidential search on the internet of your country database and with the little information gathered I am not in doubt of
your ability to handle this transaction.
I am a senior accountant with Mobil Petroleum Nigeria Plc a multinational Company with an Operational base here in Nigeria, I
am interested in investing into real estate in your country, with this contract payment that is presently trapped in Nigeria.
This fund value of Eighteen Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars ($18,500,000:00) came to exist as an
unclaimed contract payment made by this Company into the account of a foreign contractor for the contract executed in the
year 2004, ever since this payment was transferred into this existing account here in my country, every effort made to get
hold of this contractor has not been successful. Just 12 months ago, I got the news on the death of this foreign contractor
in a gas explosion at his residence in the United Kingdom and all attempts to get his next of kin beneficiary or relative has
been fruitless, the banking rules here in my country, have it that if a depositor has been confirmed dead.
I have contacted you as a foreigner to stand as my trustee to enable me present you before the bank as the either the
business associate or the distant relative of this contractor, to facilitate this fund ownership change in your favor and
immediate transfer into your account, pending my visit there in your country for sharing and utilization between us, I also
want to reassure you that every step on this fund transfer is free of any risk and it will be carried out under a legitimate
process that will protect you from any breach of the law.
On the completion of this fund into your account, the sharing should be thus:-
50% is for me as the initiator and I will confidently hand over to you all the essential documents on this very contract that
the payment is lying unclaimed in the bank, you will also guide me on the investment of this my share into real estate there
in your country.45% should be for you as my partner, considering the essential role that you will play in this transaction.5%
should be for hidden expense reimbursement that should be incurred for the legal actualization of this project in your favor.
In the execution of this project, I will urgently require from you the following details:-
Your name in full.
Your residential Address in full.
Your Mobile (Cell) telephone number.
Tel/Fax Number
 
Brief information on your profile, this should include your age, marital status and nature of Job.
However, before further details of this laudable transaction will be revealed to you. i must be convinced of your integrity,
transparency and honest, because this is highly, business transaction that requires someone with experience, exposure and
more than average means of livelihood. Please treat this transaction as strictly confidential as I am a civil servant who
would not want any exposure. Forward your response to this my email account: rodwelviae@gmail.com
I await your urgent response.
 
Sincerely,
 
Mr.Rodwell Adebola.
rodwelviae@gmail.com

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