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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: Dr.Ahmed <usumachambers@ymail.com>
Reply-To: akintolawilliamc@rocketmail.com
Date: Mon, 07 May 2012 17:45:12 -0400
Subject: QUICK REPLY

AKINTOLA WILLIAM $ CO CHARTERED ACCOUNTING FIRM..AUDITING, DEBT RECOVERING,BENEFICIARY ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT,CLAIMS AND FINANCIAL ADVISORY POLICIES. We are the sole body by Central Bank of Nigeria and Federal Republic of Nigeria obliged to audit the defaulted Bank under 1979 Nigeria constitution defaulted act promulgation. during our audit the two Banks which could not meet with Central Bank regulations are INTERCONTINENTAL BANK P.L.C AND OCEANIC BANK P.L.C. On the process of our auditing before the emerged of each of the Bank INTERCONTINENTAL BANK TO ACCESS BANK AND OCEANIC BANK TO ECO BANK.We discovered series of irregularities and different dormant individual account numbers.one of the individual account to focus is the formal Delta State Governor JAMES IBORI of Nigeria who has been jailed for 5 years on court count charges of money laundering in London.James Ibori has an account with Oceanic Bank which is mounted to ($250,000,000) u.s dollar. This mentioned James Ibori account has not be disclosed to the Government Authority concern for not been transfered to the terrilorial wealth funds.As financial expert we decided to package the fund to our personal care.but James Ibori had a command on his Bank account which means the fund must be transfer to foreign Bank account.We are writing to any individuals or organizations with trustworthy character to forward his ID, international passport and phone number for quick transfer of the fund.the sharing ratio is 40% for the foreign partner and 60% for our firm.note you are to rely to this email(akintolawilliamc@rocketmail.com) Best Regards, Ahmed. Chief Auditor.

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