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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: "Dr. Michael Achille" <michachillepbel@mail.com>
Reply-To: michachillecpbell@consultant.com
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 23:00:19 +0900
Subject:




From: Dr. Michael Achille
Esso UK Limited,
registered in England under company number 1589650,
ExxonMobil House
Ermyn Way Leatherhead
Surrey, KT22 8UX .

I am Dr. Michael Achille, an Engineer with Exxon Mobil in London
http://www.exxonmobil.co.uk). I got your contact address from an associate
working with the British Export Promotion Council. Before i continue, let
me stress that i am NOT contacting you for financial assistance.

I and my colleagues are officials in charge of offshore remittance in this
establishment. We are seeking your assistance to move of [GBP
£35,000,000.00] THIRTY FIVE MILLION POUNDS STERLING] to your
account/country for further private investment.

Please note that the nature of your job/business does not matter and you
will be better informed when I hear from you. This amount accrued from an
over-invoiced contract amount for the construction of an Oil Refinery
Sub-stations in east London in 2005 to expatriate companies. The contract
was originally valued for One Hundred and Twenty Seven Million Pounds
Sterling (£127,000,000.00), but we manipulated the figure to read One
Hundred and Sixty Two Million Pounds Sterling (£162,000,000.00). The extra
£35,000,000.00 is what we want to move to your account for our own
personal use.

This contract has been completely executed and the original contractors
have been paid their entire contract sum. We have agreed to remunerate you
with 30% because it is impossible for us to claim the amount here in
London without foreign collaboration. 10% has been mapped out for any
miscellaneous expenses incurred by either party during this business such
as taxation in your country upon arrival of the funds into your account,
and 60% for my colleagues and myself.

All modalities to move this money have been worked out. This transaction
is 100% risk free but requires 100 percent confidentiality. This is a
golden opportunity, which must not be allowed to slip out of any careless
acts and utterances. We chose you for this transaction because we believe
that good friendship can be discovered and businesses such as this cannot
be realized without trust. You can be rest assured that your security has
been considered before you were contacted.

I will let you have the details in my next message, but in summary, the
fund would be moved to you from the financial institution where it is
presently deposited as soon as you agree to participate and receive this
fund on our behalf.

Upon the receipt of this message, feel free to send to me the following to
enable us start the process:

(1) Your Full Name
(2) Complete Address
(3) Telephone
(4) Profession

Thanks and best regards in anticipation of your response.
Best Regards,
Dr. Michael Achille

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