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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: "Dr Lippa Habson" <dispo@autoforum.ru>
Reply-To: drlippa.habson@yandex.com
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 07:05:18 -0700
Subject: Attn : Sir,

Dr Lippa Habson,
Department of Budget and Planning
Ministry of Petroleum,
Federal Republic of Brazil.

Attn : Sir,

I sent you a mail but i have not heard from you so i decided to send it again due to the importance of this very message. As i told you in my first mail that my name is Dr Duke Ado , i am the Chairman , Department of Budget and Planning , Ministry of Petroleum Federal Republic of Brazil.

Therefore, after due deliberation within myself, i decided to forward to you this mail to you with regards to your response to my first message to you. I believe that you would be in a position to help me in a bid to transfer the sum of US$15.5M(Fifteen million, five hundred thousand dollars only) into a foreign account. We have made it 100% legal as much possible as you would want.

We are members of the special committee for budget and planning of the Ministry of Petroleum. This committee is principally concerned with contract appraisals and approval of contracts in order of priorities as regards CAPITAL PROJECTS of the Federal Government of Brazil. With our positions, we have successfully secured for ourselves the sum of Fifteen Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars(US$15.5M) through over-invoicing.

We are working with the present Democratically elected Government in my country, and we are seeking the support of Foreign Government, which the race has started. So they have given directives to all Federal Parastatals to settle all Foreign Contractors being owed for contract that they have done. Therefore, our plan is to include your name as one of the contractors being owed in our corporation.

What we need from you is to provide a safe Account into which the funds will be transferred since Government Officials in my country are not allowed by our laws to Operate Foreign Accounts. It has been agreed that you will be compensated with 30% of the total sum while the remaining belongs to me, while 2% of the funds will be set aside to offset expenses and pay the necessary taxes.

It may interest you to know that two years ago a similar transaction was carried out with one Mr. Patrice Miller, the C.E.O of Crane International Trading Corporation at number 135, East 57th street,28th floor, New York 10022,with Telephone (212)308-7788 and Telex Number 6731689. After the agreement between both of us in which he was to take 25% of the money as his share, the money was duly transferred into his Account. We were disappointed on our arrival in New York as we were reliably informed that Mr. Patrice Miller was no longer on that address while his Telephone and Telex Numbers have been relocated to someone else.

We need a more reliable and trustworthy person and a reputable Company to do this business with, hence we contacted you. So if you can prove yourself to be trusted and interested in this deal then we are prepared to do business with you. What we want from you is the assurance that you will let us have our share when this amount of US$15.5M is transferred into your account.

You are advised to respond back to me immediately so that we can advice you on the modalities of the transaction. All modalities of this transfer have been worked out and once started will not take more than 7 Banking days with the absolute support of all concerned. This transaction is 100% safe and risk free now and after the transfer and i am going to provide all the 12 documents that will back up this transaction to a successful completion.

Kindly treat this as urgent and very confidential.

Best regards.
Dr Lippa Habson
Department of Budget and Planning
Ministry of Petroleum
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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