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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: Adaba Adaba <mr.adabaa@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mraaadaba@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 03:16:23 -0700
Subject: FROM: MR. ADABA ADEIZA ADABA

Dear Friend,

I know that you might be surprise on this mail, but I am telling you
the truth. I know that it is against my official duty to release
confidential issue like this to an outsider. There is nothing I can do
to help you beside this. What I want to tell you is about your fund
with the Federal Government of Nigeria.There are a lot of forces
working against you right from the last CBN Governor and the current
Governor, this was as a result of poor representation from your
partners.

There is a way I can assist you get your fund. I have assisted one
woman from Australia with it, it worked out though her fund was
US$9.8M. What you have to do is to open another bank account any
where, if you can open it in another place, it will be nice, but what
you have to bear in mind is that you have to re-transfer the fund to
another account immediately you confirmed it in your account, I know
why I want it this way.

Note: To assist you to receive the fund you will give me 7% of the
total sum for the assistance. If you want me to go ahead,let me know
as soon as you get this mail,and I will make the transfer without
further delay, it might be next 6 months that they will find out and
by then you have re-transferred the fund into another account and once
the transaction is done i will delete it from the computer payment
data system.And the fund cannot be traced.

Get back to me through this email as soon as you get this mail so that
I will be in better position to know what to do.

Yours sincerely,
Mr. Adaba Adeiza Adaba.

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