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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: "ausnibedeveloper" (may be fake)
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 10:02:03 -0800
Subject: YOUR CARE CAN SAVE THIS POOR ONES.

To Whom It may Concern;

Oru Refugee Camp. Oru, Ogun State, Nigeria. 2010 figures show that over 5000 people live in Oru Refugee Camp. These people are originally from many countries in Africa: Liberia, Sierra Leone, Central Africa Republic, Congo, Erytrea, C?te-d’Ivoire, Togo, and more.
Some of these people have lived there for twenty years, children born in this time have known no other home. integration into Nigerian society has proved difficult leaving the
refugees feeling ostracized and persecuted.
The camp clinic closed in 2005 and since then health in the camp has dramatically deteriorated. Without contraception HIV/AIDS has spread and many more children are born into the abject poverty. Without a regular income many daughters are forced into prostitution to bring home money for food for their parents and siblings.
Education and training is a fundamental need to allow the refugees to make choices about their future and let them earn an independent living. This is why the work of Ausnibe Developers is so crucial in this and many other refugee camps. These camps are supposed to be temporary homes for refugees and offer little or no facilities for people.

But if given no other alternative the people are stuck there and the camps will only get bigger thereby increasing the scale of an already serious problem..
With the terror posed by the Boko Haram, an Islamic terrorist group that has no regard for western Education..The camp is now increasing critically alot of people flee from their homes in the Borno region where it's most affected to the Oru camp. Risght now the total number of people in camp is over 8000.Due to the poor feeding and medical needs available, we loose an average of five person every two months. Please you can make a difference the lives of this poor and helpless ones if you can send your donations.
We are using this medium to reach to Pastors, Christians , well meaning individuals and companies to come to the aid of this hopeless ones.
Basically we need money, cloths , food and essentials daily to get the Camp to accommodate them take care of some of their basic needs.
Please you can support by contacting us through this email .

Sincerely,
Richards Abraham.
Ausnibe Developers Coordinator.


NB:
Incase you are touched to support the Oru Refugee camp financially, you can send monney through western union transfer of Moneygram though the information below;
NAME OF RECEIVER: IBE E. AUGUSTINE.
ADDRESS: 53 FASHINA STREET, OFF PIPELINE AJUWON-AKUTE.
OGUN STATE-NIGERIA.
ZIPCODE: +23439
TEXT QUESTION: WHY ARE BEING KIND?
ANSWER: CHRIST IS KING FOREVER

Send the MTCN number with the full details of information used to
send the money such as ( Senders name, address telephone number and
actual amount sent)
Please the sending information is tally with the receiving data as it case sensitive so make sure you
use accurately so that we will not have problems receiving money at the bank.
Thanks so much and God bless you accordingly.

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