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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: "Adesuawa Abati" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <adesuwaabati2021@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 15:39:07 -0500
Subject: For Your Attention Sir!

Sir,
My names are Mr. Adesuwa Abati, a cousin to Dr. Reuben Abati, Senior Special Adviser (Media and Publicity) to former President Goodluck Jonathan GCFR, of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. I pray this letter meets you in good health. I was directed to contact you by Dr. Abati confidentially through this medium, as you may know; former President Goodluck Jonathan lost the recently concluded March 28, 2015 Presidential Election to President Muhammadu Buhari. Since the loss of the election to the opposition APC candidate President Buhari, there has been fear everywhere as the outgoing administration is rightly anticipating that the current administration of President Buhari might probe all sectors of the economy including the controversial missing US$20 Billion from Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), which the Minister of Finance Dr (Mrs.) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke are believed not to provide adequate answer to address the conflicts.

As a result of this development, Dr. Abati, instructed me to seek your partnership in a confidential funds transaction, which former President Jonathan mandated him to move out of Nigeria, under the fear that the current administration of President Buhari who took over power on May 29, 2015 might probe his regime, and when that happens, part of the said funds will be used to pay attorney fees and other expenses, which may occur during such prosecution, while the rest amount will be invested into lucrative businesses in your country with your supervision.

Consequently the total sum of US$250 Million cash has been moved out and deposited in one Isg Security & finance Storage Center in Accra Ghana by me as a special agent.
Though I did not disclose the true contents to the security company for obvious security reasons. I therefore seek your sincere and urgent partnership and cooperation to move the funds out of the security firm in Accra Ghana as soon as possible to any bank account of your choice. Let me know how much you are willing to take out of the total sum for your effort and participation. Finally If you are interested to handle this deal, please kindly provide me with your mobile telephone numbers, full names and address so that we can discuss more of this issue and move into action immediately. I will use your profile information to procure relevant documents that will legally empower you to claim the funds on your arrival in Ghana. Should you not be interested kindly discard and ignore this email.
Thank you in anticipation of your cooperation.
Yours sincerely,
Mr. Adesuwa Abati
Special Agent


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