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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: "gmdceo@ovi.com" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <gmdceo@ovi.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2012 03:23:48 +0400
Subject: REPLY ASAP.

Hello Dear Friend.
 
It would interest me if you would be my friend for us to establish a lasting friendship and partnership here in the near future, I am the GMD/CEO, First Bank of Nigeria Plc and a personal relationship manager for more than 2 years to one of the hardly embattled prominent Arab leader's son here in Lagos, afterward I wrote to his contact email twice for usual routine customer's update in his hiding place before he was later apprehended by the new government, but surprisingly got a shocking answer from him denying the ownership of the said account and the money therein and further deny knowing or having any relation with my bank in Lagos and I tried to know what's wrong here and he completely deny ever banking with us at any moment in his life. Therefore, after having some few words with my wife today, I have  decided to do something urgently and shift money in the account away from the bank before someone else does and made away with this large sum of money because each time I opened this account I rea
 
Please my good friend if you are agreed to move ahead with me in this deal,  I want you to keep all our communication and particulars concerning this money as top secret, that's one of the reasons we should be talking with my private email or phone number I may provide you only because I am not 100% assured that this won't be leaked to the new Libyan authorities (The National Transitional Council) or to the third party, although the person I am talking about here is Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the influential son of the slain ruler Muammar Gaddafi and his heir apparent, I found out that he abandoned this money for this reason as he has been on the run since war erupted against his father's 42 years of eccentric regime which ended last year and he was later apprehended and put in jail.
 
This money I am talking about here belongs to Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, which he has been making use of this account in this bank since Jul. 2008 for his investment purposes with a supposed prominent oil company in the oil rich Niger Delta here in Nigeria which I presumed counted as one of his $5,000,000,000.00 billion dollars loot scattered and unaccounted for in many banks in the world including Arab, African, Asian banks, European and American Banks. He was using the said money in this bank as well as other banks in Arab, Africa and Asian continents for his fragile charity and poverty alleviation program [the Gaddafi International Foundation for Charity Associations, which has intervened in various hostage taken situations involving Islamic militants and the crisis of the HIV trial in the Sub-Sahara Africa, mostly in the Northern part of Nigeria, Chad, Niger and Sudan] for his self-styled political campaign of succeeding his father, and this account is often loaded money directly from the Libyan central b
 
Moreover, this is a 100% risk-free deal, I am an experienced banker, and I will workout everything legally one after the other supposing you give me your full support and willingness and ready to see through the end of this deal, please don't worry how I will do this arrangement just give me your 100% backing, support, commitment, willingness and promise me that you will be with me till the end of this deal, and I will change and update all information’s of this account to another person (either you if you would agree to have the account status bear your name) so that we would have this money therein transferred easily into your accounts, however I am mostly willing to facilitate and work together with you to enable me have this money transferred into your nominated personal or company accounts so that I will send my wife to meet you over for sharing it, then for my own percentage invested into a worthwhile franchises as I am willing to give up my job in this bank after we successfully transferred this mo
 
Thanks.
E-mail:gmdceo@ovi.com
 

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