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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: "MR LAMBERT GWAZO" <anita@boi.com>
Reply-To: lambertgwazo00001@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 15:22:40 +0530
Subject: YOUR CO-OPERATION.



Attn:

I know this will come to you as a surprised but I chose to tell you
the truth because of my Sincere wish to treat every man, as I would
expect to be treated.

My name is MR LAMBERT GWAZO, a management staff of the Federal
Ministry of Finance.Following the directive from the office of the new
President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, a
thorough investigation was conducted on all foreign contract payment
file with Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation,(NNPC)and other
government agencies with directors of all commercial banks in charges
of all inheritance funds /contracts funds.

During the exercise, we discovered that some payment files has been
abandoned unclaimed for a long time due to some stringent logistics, I
noticed that it will take a long process for this money to be released
due to some irregularities detected. During our investigation, we
found out that some foreign contractors /inheritance beneficiaries had
spent so much money in trying to realize this contract payment, which
did not even reflect in the file here.

Please find here under the posing reasons why they have not been able
to get the money so far. Those who intimately/introduced there foreign
partner into the transaction were unable to Draw a Bilateral/Binding
Agreement with them as Sub-Contractor thereby, denying them being
issued with contractors certified Job card, although the fund is still
existing in their respective payment agencies here in Nigeria,which we
are also handling presently to make sure that each and every
contractors and inheritance funds are being released to the owner as
have stipulated by the President .

In view of this I have proffered solution to fill up the vacuum that
will facilitate the ease movement of the funds into your bank account
hitch-free. Upper mostly please note that you are not the original
contractor/inheritance.This total sum of us$45MUSD. (Forty Five
Million United States dollars only), which will be shared between you
and I in the ratio of 50:50.Having meticulously worked out the
modalities and logistics, with my position and as part of my
profession, I will be solely responsible of re-verifying all the
mutilated and battered documents related to this matter.

I am offering you this because as civil servants, we do not have the necessary foreign account machinery to successfully handle this transaction. Therefore it becomes necessary to source for a foreign company with the capability to act as the original beneficiary of the contract /Inheritance .It is a good thing that the president has endorsed the resolution passed by the senate committee that all foreign contractors/inheritance beneficiaries owed by the federal government of Nigeria and it’s agencies should be paid, we will seize this good opportunity to purport you as one of the beneficiaries to be paid.

The only things needed for these us$45MUSD to be transferred into your
account are as follows.

(A) New account details for the remittance of the above sum.
(B) Your banking details shall be normalize at the federal high court
to tally with the transfer of the payment.
(C) Your direct contact telephone number and fax.
(D) A copy of your international passport or any valid ID.

For your information, there will be no bureaucracy or misfortune.
Please this is strictly a deal and if you are willing to make this
deal with me, kindly email to me your letter of acceptance along with
the above stated information.Contact me immediately on the above email
address or Telephone and furnishing me with the required details or
discard this letter if you are not interest,But keep it away from any
third party please.

Yours Sincerely,
MR LAMBERT GWAZO

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