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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: Hassan Idowu <hassan.idowu1@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 21:19:02 -0700
Subject: Waiting for your response

Federal government of Nigeria
Office of Ministry of finance
Ahmadu Bello Way, Central Area,
P.M.B. 14, Garki,Abuja

Dear Sir,

I decided to contact you again and I know that this may come to you as
a surprise since I had no previous correspondence with you. I am in
deed very sorry to have invaded your privacy by contacting you in this
manner. but I chose to tell you the truth because of my sincere wish
to treat every man, as I would expect to be treated. My name is
Mr.Hassan Idowu, a management staff of the Federal Ministry of
Finance. Following the directive from the office of the president of
the federal republic of Nigeria, a thorough investigation was
conducted on all foreign contract payment file including all contract
awarded by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, (NNPC) and
other government agencies with directors of all commercial banks in
charges of all inheritance funds in Nigeria.

During the exercise, we discovered that some payment files has been
abandoned unclaimed for a long time due to some stringent logistics, I
noticed that it will take a long process for this money to be released
due to some irregularities detected. During our investigation, we
found out that some foreign contractors /inheritance beneficiaries had
spent so much money in trying to realize this contract payment, which
did not even reflect in the file here.

Please find here under the posing reasons why they have not been able
to get the money so far, Those who intimately/introduced there foreign
partner into the transaction were unable to Draw a Bilateral/Binding
Agreement with them as Sub-Contractor thereby, denying them being
issued with contractors certified Job card and original contract award
certificate from the office of the presidency, although the fund is
still existing in their respective payment agencies here in Nigeria.

In view of this I have proffered solution to fill up the vacuum that
will facilitate the ease movement of the funds into your bank account
hitch-free. Upper mostly please note that you are not the original
contractor/inheritance. This total sum of us$12,500,000.00 (Twelve
million five hundred thousand United States dollars only), which will
be shared between you and I in the ratio of 50:50.Having meticulously
worked out the modalities and logistics, with my position and as part
of my profession, I will be solely responsible of re-verifying all the
mutilated and battered documents related to this matter.

I am offering you this because as civil servants, we do not have the
necessary foreign account machinery to successfully handle this
transaction. Therefore it becomes necessary to source for a foreign
company or individual with the capability to act as the original
beneficiary of the contract /Inheritance .It is a good thing that the
president has endorsed the resolution passed by the senate committee
on foreign contract payment that all foreign Contractors/inheritance
beneficiaries owed by the federal government of Nigeria and its
agencies should be paid, we will seize this good opportunity to
purport you as one of the beneficiaries to be paid. The only thing
needed for these us$12.5 million to be transferred into your account
are as follows.

(A) New account details for the remittance of the above sum which
shall be normalize at the federal high court of justice to tally with
the transfer of this payment.
(B)Your direct contacts address telephone number.
(C) A copy of your international passport or any valid ID.
(D)Your occupation.

For your information, there will be no bureaucracy or misfortune.
Please this is strictly a deal and if you are willing to make this
deal with me, kindly email to me your letter of acceptance along with
the above stated information. Contact me immediately on the above
email address or Telephone and furnishing me with the required details
or discard this letter if you are not interest,

But keep it away from any third party please.

Yours Sincerely,
Hassan Idowu

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