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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: Paul Omene <paulomene@daisuke006.sz.cx>
Reply-To: <paulomene147@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 13:13:18 -0800
Subject: Sincerely,Mr.Paul Omene.


Chairman Seven Man Presidential Panel
on Foreign Contractors.

I am the Chairman of Seven (7) Man Presidential Panel on Foreign Contract Awards And Payment Recommendation.This panel is set up and empowered by three factors;The President Of Nigeria,Muhammadu Buhari,Members of G-34 and the Honourable Members of the Judicial Panel, to review and subsequently
recommend for payments for all duly executed contracts awarded to foreign contractors between 2010 & 2014 fiscal year.

Precisely five months back, we discovered an over-invoiced contract sum to the tune of Two Hundred Million United States Dollars (USD$200,000,000.00).We further traced the origin of this sum and thus ,found out that it was deliberately over-invoiced by then Contract Awarding Committee before they were dissolved.

As it is now, we are very confident that the government has no knowledge of this sum; neither does the dissolved committee have access to the said sum again.

We still have almost Three years to conclude and it is only then that we shall give official reports and probably refer this over-invoiced contract sum back to the federal government treasury,It is in the light of this that my colleagues and myself decided to confidently contact you urgently so that we
could perfectly present you or your company as one of the foreign contractors that executed contract for the Nigerian government, and we shall recommend Sixty Million United States Dollars (USD$60,000,000.00)to be paid into your account or company’s account,thereafter we shall refer back to the governments
purse the balance of One Hundred And Forty Million Dollars(USD140,000,000.00).

We have carefully worked out the strategies to secure all the necessary
approvals in your name and there is no room for failure, in that we are still at the head of Contract Review and Payment Recommendation, and it is only our
reports that count.

If we have understood ourselves and believed with trust that we could do this together and move this sum of Sixty Million Dollars(USD$60,000,000.00) into your account, then forward to us urgently the following;

1. Your full names and address
2. Company's name and address, if any
3. Full bank account details and
4. Telephone and fax numbers

we shall further discuss and agree on the percentage sharing as soon as we hear from you affirmatively.

Sincerely,
Mr.Paul Omene.

Chairman Seven Man Presidential Panel
on Foreign Contractors.

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