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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: Omino Naad <omminonaads@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 11:11:06 +0000
Subject: This is why i am writing to you.

Hello,
I came across your email address in the internet, as i was searching for a
foreign business partner who can help me to invest my fund overseas in
profitable business ventures. It was after going through your profile which
projected you in good order that i made up my mind to write you. I believe
you can help me if you wish to. My reason for contacting you is that i want
you to assist me in the area of investing my funds in profitable business
ventures and equally to provide a safe bank account where the funds would
transferred to. The amount involved is $6,300,000 ( Six million three
hundred thousand United States dollars),it was deposited in one of the
banks in Senegal,some years ago by my father, in which my name appeared as
his next of kin and beneficiary of the funds in the bank's official deposit
file. I want you to be my business partner and foreign representative and
to assist me in the would be investment projects. Your duty is to first
help me to secure the transfer of the above mentioned amount of money to a
safe bank account in your country after that is done, we then start
investing the funds.

I hereby, introduce myself to you. My name is Omino Naad, i am a black man
from the Republic of Sudan. My late father Mr. Steve Naad was a well known
oil and gas dealer when he was alive. My father and mother were attacked by
armed bandits inside our house in Omdurman one early morning and both of
them were killed in cold blood, these are evils perpetrated by heartless
people in the bloody war which was fought in my country. I was at the
University reading petroleum engineering when this sad incident occurred. I
am the only person that is alive in my family,it gives me nightmares and
sleepless nights whenever i remember the brutal death of my parents. I
managed to escape from my country to Senegal where i am seeking for
political asylum.

It is very important for you to know that i am an asylum seeker here in
Senegal and the law of Senegal does not allow refugees and asylum seekers
to operate accounts in banks or to withdraw money from banks. The Director
of the department of foreign transfer of the bank made this point known
clearly known to me when i went to his office and told him that i want to
take possession of the fund,he advised me to search for a foreign business
partner who will help me to secure the transfer of the fund to a safe bank
account overseas and also help me to invest it in profitable business
ventures. He also told me that the bank will require a "legal contract
agreement", between me and my would be foreign business partner and also a
"power of attorney", prepared in the name of my foreign business partner by
an international resident lawyer in Senegal. According to the Director of
the bank,the two documents will give you legal authority to secure the
transfer of the funds from the bank where it is currently deposited to your
bank account on my behalf. He also made it very clear to me that without
the two legal documents the bank will not transfer the funds. So i need
your help in all areas of this transaction including taking care of any
expenses that may arise in the process of this transaction.

I am giving you 10% of the total sum as your commission for the help you
are going to give me by providing a safe bank account where the funds would
be transferred to, before we start investing it in your country. You will
also be entitled to an agreed percentage commission on accrued profits
after investment. I have full confidence in your ability to assist me based
on what i saw in your profile. For you to be sure that the investment
proposal i sent to you is real and genuine, i am inviting you to come down
to Senegal to see me in person for you to see a physical proof that the
funds was deposited at the bank in Senegal by my father before his untimely
death. If you arrive in Senegal both of us will go to bank where my father
deposited the money and then work out the transfer of the funds before
traveling together back to your country for our future investment projects.
I consider meeting you in person very important. I will give you more
details immediately i receive a positive reply from you. You should write
me back at this email address ( bb11bb22cc@yahoo.com.sg ). I am waiting for
your valued response. Thanks and God bless.
Yours sincerely,
Omino.

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