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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: "dadamilla ubaseke mila" <dadamilla@eresmas.com>
Reply-To: <ubaseke_dadamilla@myway.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 14:50:17 -0400
Subject: reply please.





Alternative email address: ubaseke_dadamilla@myway.com.
URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL
(RE: TRANSFER OF ($ 25,500.000.00 USD )
Dear sir,
We want to transfer to overseas ($ 25,500.000.00 USD)twentyfive million
five hundred million United States Dollars) from a Bank in
Africa, I want to ask you to quietly look for a reliable and honest person
whowill be capable and fit to provide either an existing bank account
or to set up a new Bank a/c immediately to receive this money, even an
empty a/c can serve to receive this money, as long as
you wil lremain honest to me till the end for this important business
trusting in you and believing in God that you will never let
me down either now or in future.

I am Mr Ubaseke Dadamilla, the Auditor General of a bank in Africa, during
the course of our auditing I discovered a floating fund
in an account opened in the bank in 1990 and since 1993 nobody has
operated on this account again, after going through some old files in the
records I discovered that the owner of the account died without a [heir]
hence the money is floating and if I do not remit this
money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing. the owner of this
account is Mr. Magnus leon, a foreigner, and a sailor, and he
died, since 1993. and no other person knows about this account or any
thing concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and my
investigation
proved to me as well that Magnus Leon until his death was the manager
Magnus Coy.(pty). SA.

We will start the first transfer with ten million [$10,000.000] upon
successful transaction without any disappoint from your
side, we shall re-apply for the payment of the remaining rest amount
to your account. The amount involved is (USD 25.5M) twentyfivemillion five
hundred United States Dollars, only I want to first transfer
$10,000.000 [ten million United States Dollar from this money into a safe
foreigners account abroad before the rest, but I don't know
any foreigner, I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money
can not be approved to a local person here, without
valid international foreign passport, but can only be approved to any
foreigner with valid international passport or drivers license
and foreign a/c because the money is in us dPOST
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HTTP/1.0ollars and the former owner of the a/c Mr. Magnus Leon is a
foreigner too, [and the money can only be approved into
a foreign a/c

However, we will sign a binding agreement, to bind us together I got your
contact address from the internet, I am revealing this to you with believe
in God that you will never let me down in this business, you are the first
and the only person that I am contacting for this business, so please
reply urgently
so that I will inform you the next step to take urgently. Send also your
private telephone and fax number including the full
details of the account to be used for the deposit. I want us to meet face
to face to build confidence and to sign
a binding agreement that will bind us together before transferring the
money to any account of your choice where the fund will
be safe. Before we fly to your country for withdrawal, sharing and
investments. I need your full co-operation to make this work fine. because
the management is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who has
correct information of this account, which I will give
to you, upon your positive response and once I am convinced that you are
capable and will meet up with instruction of a
key bank official who is deeply involved with me in this business. I need
your strong assurance that you will never, never let me down.
With my influence and the position of the bank official we can transfer
this money to any foreigner's reliable account which
you can provide with assurance that this money will be intact pending our
physical arrival in your country for sharing. The
bank official will destroy all documents of transaction immediately we
receive this money leaving no trace to any place and to build
confidence you can come immediately to discuss with me face to face after
which I will make this remittance in your presence
and three of us will fly to your country at least two days ahead of the
money going into the account.
I will apply for annual leave to get visa immediately I hear from you that
you are ready to act and receive this fund in
your account. I will use my position and influence to obtain all legal
approvals for onward transfer of this money to your
account with appropriate clearance from the relevant ministries and
foreign exchange departments.
At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 35% of the total
amount, 60% will be for me, while 5% will be for expenses
both parties might have incurred during the process of transferring.
I look forward to your earliest reply through my private email
address:ubaseke_dadamilla@myway.com.
Yours,
Ubaseke Dadamilla.



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