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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: janet_uba <janet_uba@telstra.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 09:46:25 -0800
Subject: Compliments of the season



From the desk of Mrs. Janet Uba.
EMAIL:janet_uba@telstra.com
Compliments of the season!
Dear Sir,
I want to bring to your knowledge of a very lucrative business opportunity that I have. Well I work at the central bank of Nigeria as an agent that accompanies contractors funds to be paid to them and one of my fellow CBN official by name Mr. Patrick have this deal together and we wont mine you in it if you promise to keep optimum confidentiality the boxes contain about $38,000,000 this money was lodged in a courier company in New York. The name of the courier company is GDPS (global diplomatic parcel service).

Call Mr. Michael and tell him that you are calling on behalf of Mrs. Janet Uba. that handed the consignment to him WHOSE TRACK NO IS 5119733286, Also ask him how much it will cost to clear out this consignment and get it delivered to your home address, bear in mind that they are not aware of the content of the box, it was registered as family valuable goods, you know that this consignment has been there for the past 4 months where I am looking for a trust worthy person to get it out. This money was meant for the contractors that executed their contracts; bear in mind that we are ready to release 40% of the total money to you for your help each of the boxes has $19,000,000. You can please reach me on this
Email: mrsjuba@yahoo.com
Regards
Mrs. Janet Uba.






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