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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!

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Fraud email example:

From: Joshua Awishe <joshuaawishe18@hakimotoxx.jp.tn>
Reply-To: <joshuaawishe90@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2016 07:06:37 -0800
Subject: GOOD-DAY

Greetings to you and your family,

I hope you receive my e-mail in a good state of mind. I want to apologize for bugging into your privacy. I am constrained to contact you due to an urgent situation that required an urgent attention. I want you to treat my message with utmost urgency and secrecy.
My name is Joshua Awishe a personal assistant to the em-battling Ex-Petroleum Minister of Federal Republic of Nigeria ( Dr. Diezani Alison-Madueke ) she served as the Petroleum Minister under the last dispensation of Former President Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan who was defeated in his bid for re-election in the 28 March 2015 poll to the opposition party.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-12192152

Since the lost and change in power there have been severe witch-hunting and false allegation from the current ruling party. Since the emergence of the new political power there had been serious investigation into the cabinet of the former president of Nigeria especially the Ex-Petroleum Minister because Petroleum product is the major source of revenue to the Nigerian economy.

This investigation is been made to tarnish the good image of the former president and the ex.minister of petroleum.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/07/why-buharill-probe-only-jonathans-govt-presidency/

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/183744-jonathan-wants-obasanjo-abdulsalami-babangida-others-probed.html

Due to the observation of I and my boss, the Ex-Petroleum Minister, we were able to arrange a large amount of money in a metallic boxes and was move out of Nigeria by an African diplomat. This boxes was registered as an highly classified personal effect with a security company in Europe.

Though the content of the metallic boxes was not disclose to the African diplomat that moved the boxes to the security company in Europe as he was paid his full charges by my boss. I can authoritatively tell you that both the African diplomat and the security company does not know the real content of the boxes because it was registered as an highly classified personal effect as I have said earlier.

My main reason of contacting you is that I want you to help my boss invest this large amount of money that is presently registered with a security company in Europe. I, as the personal assistant to the ex-Petroleum Minister knows the existence of this money alone. There are eyes on me due to the current change of power and investigation in the country that is why i want a you to help me get this fund from the security company in Europe to your disposal and invest it in a profitable business that will yield great turnover.

Note: That the arrangement, movement and the registration of the fund in the metallic box is not traceable as it was properly arranged under the classified secrecy act, So this is 100% risk free.

I shall feed you with the necessary information on how you will retrieve this funds when i am sure that you are capable of handling this large sum of fund.
Mind you, I want you to know that am not here for endless emails. I am here for action and i need someone who is capable of handling a huge sum of money and also having the business mind and knowledge on where and what to invest this very large sum of money.
If you are interested in my proposal, reply back to me and i shall further bestow you with the necessary steps on how we can move ahead.

Presently my boss former Minister of Petroleum, Diezani Alison-Madueke is just recovering from Cancer in the UK.

http://saharareporters.com/2015/11/14/photos-cancer-stricken-diezani-alison-madueke-released

Note: I am looking forward in completing this project in the next 5-7 days.

Regards,
Mr. Joshua Awishe.

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