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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: "Mr. Asari Dokubo" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <pmatters2011@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2017 08:18:12 +0100
Subject: IMPORTANT NOTICE!

Greetings To You,

How are you doing today?
With Regards to my contact to you. I, on behalf of my two colleagues solicit for your support to invest $75,000,000.00 in a profitable venture.
These funds emanated from our secret sales of unauthorized crude oil to foreign firms in exchange for arms/ammunition and funds to sponsor militant groups in the Niger Delta oil region of Nigeria.
Over years, we have run these groups to empower our people/youths to protect our land that have been devastated by crude oil spillages, drilling pollution and total negligence by the government and the oil companies. We are not violent people, we are peaceful people but could not stand the continuous destruction of our lands, waters and forest where our people could no longer farm nor fish as that is our basic source of livelihood. This motivated our gesture till the call for amnesty by the government and agreement with our concerned communities to revamp the affected areas and make compensations.
Presently, vast majority of our groups have keyed to the government amnesty program. Hence, I and my two other colleagues have resolved to invest the funds left behind in funding the militant groups, in overseas investment after deliberation.
The main reason why we opted for foreign investment of these funds is to avoid any form of implication or indictment on conspiracy as my other colleagues are government officials working in different government ministries with a common goal.
As you may wish to know, all the funds we received in sales of crude oil to our buyers were paid in cash, no bank transfer was allowed to avoid any trace. The funds were deposited in the Vault of a safe-keeping company in disguise as gold treasures.
We, however, solicit your support to receive the funds and put them into circulation for a viable investment. Surely, you will manage the investment for us but you must state clearly what will be your entitlement for your support and we will make agreement to keep all parties faithful to one another.
However, I and my colleagues are much more concerned that this transaction be kept and handled with utmost secrecy to the later. Where we are not assured of your capability, we may decline our cooperation.
I will provide a secured telephone line for our communication when I receive your positive response.


Regards,

Mujahid Dokubo-Asari



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