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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: "adams hapua" <adamshapua2@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 07:25:00 +0000
Subject: FROM I.S.A

phone: (24 hours):234-802-764-0445
please reply to.isa_frank17@yahoo.co.in


I am the chairman of the contract awardcommittee of the
petroluem and
natural resources ministry here in Nigeria, for security
reasons, I may not
wish to disclose how Igotyour email address for now.

After due deliberation with mypartner, Idecided to forward
to you this
business proposal, we want you toassist us receive the sum
of
Twenty eight million, six hundredthousand united state
bills
(us28.6m) into your account. This fundresulted from an
over-invoiced
contract awarded by us under thebudgetallocation to my
ministry and the
bill was approved for payment bytheconcerned ministries.
The contract was
executed, commissioned andthecontractor was paid his
actual cost of the
contract. Now, we areleftwith the balance of us28.6m as
the over invoiced
amount, which wehavedeliberately over estimated for our
own use. Please
note that thelawforbids civil servants to operate or own
foreign accounts
hencethiscontact, we have agreed to share the money in
thefollowing
percentages: 30 for you, 60 for us 10 for tax as may
berequired by your
government.

Note that this transaction is verymuchfree from all sorts
of risk hence
the business was carefullyplannedbefore it was successfully
executed and
we the officials involvedinthe deal have put many years in
service to our
ministry. We havebeenexercising patience for this
privilege for so long
not until thepresidential announcement last week, that all
foreign
contractorsowedbe paid forthwith, this will enable the
presidency
reconcile ourdebtratio with the outside world and to most
of us, this is
a lifetimeblessing we cannot afford to miss. Upon
indication of your
interesttofully co-operate with us, a payment
application/information
formwillbe sent to you via email for completion.

Note that thefollowinginformation: a) bankers name and
address, b)
account number andaccountname and c) your private phone
number and email
address will enableusseek/secure approval of the fund from
the concerned
governmentquarters/ministries within 3-4 banking days.

As soon as weconfirmreceipt of this money in your nominated
bank account,
my partnerand Iwill come over to your country to arrange
for our own
share andpossibly invest part of this money in your
country.

Let honestyandtrust be our watchword throughout this
transaction. I shall
furnishyou with some details about myself. Your prompt
reply willbe
highlyappreciated.

Best regards.

Adams. I. S


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