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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: "Sylvester" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <sylvesteretuna01@securenamb.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 09:37:40 +0100
Subject: Personal

Dear Friend,

I am Mr. Sylvester Etuna, Private Assistant to the Director of Contract Award and Monitoring Committee in the Directorate of Mines (DOM) of Namibia Ministry of Mines and Energy. Sometime ago, a contract was awarded to a foreign firm by DOM been the Committee the director headed. He personally over invoiced the contract to the tune of $7.6 MILLION USD.

The over-invoicing was agreed to between him and the Foreign Contractor to win the bid for the job. He now want to transfer this money which is at present in a suspense Account with DOM ready to be transferred into any Overseas Account the director forward for payment. Director has mandated me to source for a trusted foreign partner to provide this account.

SHARRING: For providing the account where the money will be transferred, you will be entitled to 30% of the money, 65% will be for me , director and his partner while 5% will be set aside to cover expenses that may be incurred by us during the course of this transfer, both locally andinternational expenses. I would require the following: Your Company or personal Name, Address, Tel. & Fax numbers.

The above information’s would be used to make formal applications as a matter of procedure for the release of the money and onward transfer to your account. It does not matter whether or not your company does contract projects of this nature described here as all the documents will be processed and submitted to the various necessary government department.

The assumption is that you won the contract as a subcontractor and all payment approvals and documents covering this payment will be issued to you during the transfer process by the Government Ministry. The director is a civil servant and cannot deposit this money to his or his associates account and since we also want to invest in your Country, we urgently need
your assistant to get this money out to you as soon as possible as this deal is 100% risk free.

Please contact me immediately through the email below whether or not you are interested in this deal. If you are not, it will enable me scout for another foreign partner to carry out this deal. Send the required information through email, for confidential purposes.

I wait in anticipation for your co-operation.

Yours faithfully,

Sylvester.

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