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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: badger@wi.net
Reply-To: jacobm@postafiok.hu
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2013 02:24:52 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Please read carefully and respond appropriately




For your urgent attention:


Please treat as a matter of urgency.


I wish to contact you today to inform you of a very profitable project, in
other to succeed in this project, both of us need to handle it together as
partners. My name is Mr. Jacob M. Rachidi; I am the Director General of
Trade and Industry here in the Republic of South Africa.

As a matter of fact, this project is specifically a DEAL, which I arranged
through my position in the Government during one of the contract that was
awarded to a UK company in 2011. My reason for contacting you is that,
this project will require a foreign partner to handle this transaction
with me to its completion, so that we share the fund between us. During
the course of the project, I will link you up with our Government as the
foreign partner to the original contractor who will be receiving the
unpaid balance contract amount from the Government and this balance
contract amount will be send into your foreign bank account by the South
African Government.

The project is a very profitable one, and I will need your commitment,
honesty, transparency and trust, you will also be required to provide us
with the following:

(a) Bank account that will be able to accommodate the cash sum of (US$10,
500,000.00) Ten Million
Five hundred United States Dollars, which is the balance contract
amount involved on the project.

(b) You have to be able to bring out your time to follow up the project
and also ensure that you
communicate directly with the payer, which is our Government since
it is a legal project and it will
be handled by the

Government itself, under my directive from this end as I am also the key
personnel on the Government
who will initiate the payment of the fund into your bank account. This is
a project that if successfully completed, it will boost our present
financial state and through this project, you will as well have the
opportunity to proceed with other projects with our Government through my
connection.

Please note that this project is 100% LEGAL and if you are interested on
this proposition, then you should revert back by sending me an email to
notify me of your interest so that I will be able to give you more
information on the processes for your understanding, and then we commence
with the follow up. You can as well drop your direct telephone (Mobile)
number so that I can call you to explain more in details, or you can give
me a call for a faster communication.
I will be waiting to hear from you in due course.

Regards,

Name: Mr. Jacob M. Rachidi
Position: Director - General
Department of Trade and Industry (dti)
Republic of South Africa
Phone: 00(27)-82-350-2862
Email: jacobm@postafiok.hu

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