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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: "DR. REUBEN ABATI" <marketing@moballeghangroup.com>
Reply-To: drreuben.abati2016@yandex.com
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2016 05:05:26 +0430
Subject: RE:PARTNER






Dear Friend,

My Name is Dr. Reuben Abati, Senior Special Adviser (Media and Publicity)
to former President Goodluck Jonathan GCFR the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
I pray this letter meets you in good health. I was directed to contact you
by the former President confidentially through this medium as you may know
former President Goodluck Jonathan lost the recently concluded March 28,
2015 presidential election to President Muhammadu Buhari. Since the loss of
the election to the opposition APC/Party candidate President Buhari, there
has been probable fear everywhere as the past administration is rightly
anticipating that the current administration of President Buhari will probe
all sectors of the economy including the controversial missing US$20billion
from Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), which the Minister of
Finance Dr (Mrs.) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Minister of Petroleum Resources,
Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke are believed not to provide adequate answer to
address the conflicting reports from various source.

As a result of this development, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, instructed
me to seek your partnership in a confidential funds transaction/transfer so
as to move the said funds out to you under the apprehension that the
current administration of President Buhari who took over power on May 29,
2015 may probe his regime, and should that happen his government will
confiscate the funds. Our goal is to be present you or your company as a
contractor/beneficiary while the amount will be invested into lucrative
businesses in your country consequently the total sum of $250million USD
cash has been moved and deposited with a security and vault company in
Bahrain through the help of one Mr. Alexey Elagin from Russia as the sole
depositor. I therefore seek your sincere and urgent partnership and
cooperation to move the funds out of the security firm as soon as possible
before the current administration concludes with restructuring of all the
Ministries, Departments and Agencies.

If you are interested to help in this deal, please kindly provide me with
your mobile telephone number, full name and address so that we can discuss
further about this issue immediately.

Kindly confirm the true nature of my story/ request via the two links
below before you respond.

http://jaguda.com/2015/04/20/president-jonathan-dismisses-claims-spending-n2
-trillion-recently-concluded-elections/
http://www.nigerianewsdigest.com/%EF%BB%BFmissing-u-s-20-billion-oil-money-o
ur-audit-report-not-reliable-pricewaterhousecoopers/

Yours sincerely,
Dr. Reuben Abati
http://www.reubenabati.com.ng/









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