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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: "Mr. Abati Adesuwa" <info.dept@plc.com>
Reply-To: abati.adesuwa@yandex.com
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2015 12:36:28 -0500
Subject: [***** SPAM 3.6 *****] RE: PLEASE READ THIS IMPORTANT INFORMATION

My Good Friend,

Good day to you . My name is Mr. Adesuwa Abati, a cousin to Dr.Reuben Abati, Senior Special Adviser (Media and Publicity) to 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 letter, as you may wish to know; President Goodluck Jonathan lost the recently concluded March 28, 2015 presidential election to General Muhammadu Buhari. Since the loss of the election to the opposition APC candidate General Buhari, there has been probable fear everywhere as the outgoing administration is rightly anticipating the incoming administration of General Buhari might probe all sectors of the economy including the controversial missing $20billion Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) fraud, which the Minister of Finance Dr (Mrs). Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke could not provide adequate answer to address the conflicting reports from various authorities.

As a result of this development, Dr. Abati, instructed me to seek your partnership in a confidential funds transaction, which President Jonathan mandated him to transfer out of Nigeria, with the possibility that the incoming administration of General Buhari might probe him, and should that happen, then 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 .Our goal is to be prepared. Consequently the total sum of $250mln USD cash has been deposited with a security firm here in Accra Ghana by me as a special agent. I therefore seek your sincere and urgent partnership and cooperation to move the funds out of the security firm before any further investigation. In furtherance to this, you will be rewarded with 30% of the $250mln, while 5% will be set aside to cover all administrative expenses both parties will incur during this process.

If you are interested to partner with us in this urgent transaction, please kindly provide me with your mobile telephone number so that we can discuss more of this issue and move into action immediately. You can equally reach me on the designated phone number or and direct subsequent email correspondences through my private email address: abati.adesuwa@yandex.com

Thank you

Sincerely,

Mr. Adesuwa Abati
Special Agent

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