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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: buba wahil <bubawah16@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2021 06:37:28 -0800
Subject: Dear Sir/Madam

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Dear Sir/Madam,
Compliments of the day to you!
My name is Engr Eddy Smith, a director for project and planning department
of the federal ministry of works & housing authority.
I am the head of Tenders Board Committee in charge of awarding
contracts to both local and foreign contractors.
In 2019/2020, we executed series of contracts and some of this
contracts we deliberately over invoiced to the tune of

Twelve million, three Hundred Thousand United States dollars ($12,300,000.00) .
We as civil servants, cannot keep this amount in our personal accounts here
in our country because of government fund monitoring team on all
public office holders account.

In view of this, my partners have mandated me to look for a foreign
partner who will assist us to act as a contractor
to receive these fund into any account of your choice and we will
compensate you with 25% of the total sum as your share beneficiary.
Please understand that this is a confidential matter and we need full
cooperation from you to transfer these fund.

Regards

Engr. Eddy Smith

smitheddy47@gmail.com

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