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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: David Clark Jr <hhii4@kuotr.bd.tn>
Reply-To: <d_clark1@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 19:27:38 +0100
Subject: Re; To Whom It May Concern.

dDear Sir / Ma,

Re; Can you be trusted and handle this?
==============================

Please kindly accept my reserved apology in invading your mail privacy.
Anyway, the volume of the high sensitivity of the content of my mail
made it so.

I was a couple of months ago by the grace of God ,the personal
assistance to the last Nigerian Petroleum minister in the person of [
Mrs Dieziani Allison Madueke ] presently been help in the United
Kingdom for graft offences tracable to Nigeria government under the
leadership of the president [ Mohammed Buhari ] who is deeply fighting
corruption which is in the high level in Nigeria .

Ever since this government came on board, Mrs Dieziani has been
accussed of siphoning out of the country the sum of five [ 5 billion
Dollars ] an unconfirmed amount which the present government is using
to witch hunt top former president [ Good Luck Ebele Jonathan ]
ministers that occupied most juicy positions which Mrs Dieziani
happened to be one of them.

For your information, i am priviledge to know about the where about of
the sum of US$57M that was supposed to be used in the payment of oil
marketers fee called subsidy payment - [ SURE - P ], she has asked me
to solicit for who will accept and have the capability / capacity to
claim and receive this fund on her behalf from a trusted reliable
financial firm in the UK.

Once you accept this offer without any iota of betrayal in the course
and final of the release of the fund to you, you will then be
introduced and linked to a British government licence Ombudsman who
will liaise between you and the financial firm keeping the fund as he
the Ombudsman will be rewarded alongside your very good self at a
percentage of 20% while 10% be for the Ombudsman including the
repayment of any financial input both of you might have made in the
course of the transaction.

Do send me your present correct contact data plus a scanned id of
yours, once receive , we then proceed under my linkage as the go in
between.

Note that due to her current predicament plus her poor health
condition of suffering from breast and cervical cancer, she whole
heartly has given me the power to handle this, with someone whose
knowledge and experience of a profitable business could be established
in your country as a headquarter while a branch of it will be
established in Nigeria.

Regards,
David Clark Jr. [ + 234 - 706 - 939 1876 ].

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