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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: "Barrister Mark Udenze "
Reply-To: <markudenzelawfirm@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 21:58:09 -0800
Subject: FUND INVESTMENT


Dear friend,

My name is Barrister Mark Udenze, of mark&udenze law firm Nigeria.
I have a client (a contractor) who executed a contract for Nigerian
National Petroleum
Corporation, NNPC. This corporation controls and manages the petroleum
industry in
the country. This my client, Mr. Wang, an Asian and two of his
colleagues died through air crash on June 6, 2012 in Lagos Nigeria
which claimed the lives of all passengers and crew, 153 in all
perished.

The crashed Dana ail line had reg. Mark. 5N-RAM. His contract number
is NNPC/FGN/0431/PHREF/2011 and the amount is USD35.5M. This contract
is turn around maintenance of Port Harcourt refinery Nigeria. He had
received USD20, 000,000.00 after commissioning of the project, and was
waiting for the balance payment of USD15, 500,000.00 from the NNPC
when this sad incident occurred.


I have searched for his next of kin to hand him over the documents
but to no avail. I therefore seek your permission to use you as the
next of kin to Mr. Yu Wang, and I will legally transfer the next of
kinship to you, with all documents changed to your name as the
rightful beneficiary of this fund. I will process the documentations
with your name and bank account to ensure that you are paid by the
government. Our President,
President Mohammadu Buhari has begun payment of all outstanding
foreign debts and no one is available to claim this fund. I need your
permission therefore to use your information to receive this fund
waiting for claims.

If you are interested, I need your full name, home address;
telephone numbers and banking coordinate to receive the fund. Sharing
shall be 60% for me and 40% for you. Expenses shall be paid by each
party from his share. That is, you will be ready and willing to help
me with financing if I run short of cash in the process of
documentation. This is because there must be expenses here and may
require your help financially to get it done quicker. I also intend to
reinvest my share in your country on your advice on a better venture.
Please reply as quickly as you can if you are interested. The
processing of the documentation is expected to take about five working
days after which the funds will be wired to your account.

Please view the sight of the plan crash,

http://naijagists.com/dana-plane-crash-victims-ncaa-releases-names-pictures-of-recovered-bodies/

Yours,

Barrister Mark Udenze (( Moble phone. 234 7086528363).)
Email: markudenzelawfirm@gmail.com

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