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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: "bank" <bank@nofafo.no>
Date: Sun, 10 May 2015 13:46:05 +0200
Subject: FROM THE DESK ENGR PAUL WELTER STRICKLY CONFIDENTIAL/ URGENT.


Dear friend, Greetings from my country, Nigeria. And by God’s grace this
is a warm embrace of life time and mutually beneficial relationships between
us, hence my writing you.

Dr.PAUL WELTER is my name, 52 years old and a renowned engineer. Happily
married with five lovely children .Special adviser on petroleum to the
military head of state and also chairman contract review panel (C.R.P)
appointed by the federal military government of Nigeria that handed over
power to the civilian government.

We evacuated and vetted approvals for payment of contract awarded and
executed for the petroleum trust fund (P. T. F).

You should act fast by helping me to and my colleagues as a foreign account
holder transfer the sum of US! $ 25.5M (Twenty five million, five hundred
thousand united state Dollars) into your personal account or company
account.

You must treat this mail with utmost confidentiality and trust. We
cannot afford to toy with this rare opportunity in a life time. It may
interest you to know that this is no scam or fairy tale. To intimate you on
the source of this fund, we over invoiced the contract sum of US$ 500M to
US$525.5M with the intention of using the US$25.5M for our personal use and
investment should we decide to retire from service. The consortium of ABB
lummus J.G.C of Japan, Julius Berger and Fouguerorlle were awarded to said
contract in Engineering and procurements work rivers and delta state of
Nigeria on the 10th of January, 1998 which was approved and paid in full by
the federal military government. The contractors (Foreign) had since been
paid and the excess US$25.5M is in an escrow account of the Nigeria
Deposit bank (N. D.B) Because we are still in the serving and cannot own a
foreign account for now as in accordance with the law of my country that’s
why we decided to contact you, and more so the contract was done by foreign
contractor and payment were made in United State Dollars, the more reason we
urgently need your assistance to receive this money for us. Dear friend,
all modalities for the successful transfer of this fund all legal and
administrative requirements in Nigeria as well as that of international
Arbitration have been worked out. We hope to conclude this transaction
within ten (10) banking days once you open communication with me to
furnish me your willingness and the following information are needed for
easy transfer of the fund Your company or full name Company address
Phone number Bank Name , account Name ,Number and any other information I
shall bring you into complete picture of this transaction and instruction
you ought to adhere thus for the successful transfer We have agreed that
the funds will be shared thus after it has been transfer into your
account: 12 % of the money will go to you for acting as the
beneficiary of the fund 70 % to go the government officials (with
which we wish to commence an importation business in conjunction with
you). 18 % has been set
aside as an abstract projection for reimbursement to both parties for
incidental expenses that may be incurred in the course of this transaction.
Be rest assured that this deal is absolutely 100 % risk free on both side .I
await your response via my email addresses: paulwelter@mail.com


Yours faithfully,
ENGR, PAUL WELTER.FNSE MNI

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