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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: josephbello2004@excite.com
Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 18:54:58 +0100
Subject: Consider this proposal very well and get back to me.

Dear Prospective Partner,

We are making this contact with you after a satisfactory information gathered from the Nigerian
Chamber of Commerce. Based on this, we are convinced that you will provide us with a solution to effect
remittance of the sum of $35,500.000.00 resulting from over costing of job/services done for the Nigerian
National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), by foreign companies.
We are top officials of NNPC. We evaluate and secure approvals for payment of contracts executed for
NNPC. We have tactfully raised values to a foreign company for onward disbursement among ourselves. The
Director of Accounts/Finance and Director of Audit. This transaction is 100% safe. We are seeking your
assistance and permission to remit this amount into your account. We have agreed to give you 25% of the total
value, while our share will be70%. The remaining 5% will be used as refund by both sides to off-set the cost
that must be incurred in the areas of public relations, engaging of legal practitioner as attorney, taxation
and other incidentals in the course of securing the legitimate release of the fund into your account.
Please indicate your acceptance to carry out this transaction urgently on receipt of this letter.
I shall in turn inform you of the modalities for a formal application to secure the necessary approvals
for the immediate legitimate release of this fund into your account. Please understand that this transaction
must be held in absolute privacy.

You can reach me on this my private email: josephbello2005@excite.com
You can also give me your phone number and fax for easy communication.

Thanks for your co-operations.
Yours faithfully,

Chief Joseph Bello
Tel: +234 803 473 3951


You can call me anytime.

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