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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: ADNAN MAHAMA <adnan_mahama@yahoo.co.in>
Reply-To: adnanmahama@lawyer.com
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 16:46:14 +0100 (BST)
Subject: For your Attention.!


Attention:Sir,
I well know that by now you must be wondering why your fund has not been paid to you all these while irrespective of your efforts in this regard.
Well this is the fact,Your previous partners reach an agreement with me when I offered to help them transfer an over invoiced contract sum to else where through you.When you were contacted and the whole process started progressing they wanted to sideline me beleiving that since every information regarding this fund has been given to them and I have facilitated every thing even all necessary documents covering the fund was well prepared by me.
Because of their greed they never wanted to contact me and neither did they pay me what was agreed on up till now,so based on this I decided to frustrate the whole and they never wanted to tell you instead they keep on deceiving you into beleiving that they can get this deal through.
Neverthless when payment was suspended and the payment venue shifted to ghana,they still used another person to see that they got this fund by I still frustrated them as they never knew that I am still keeping eye on the fund and there is no way this fund can be paid to you unless I decide.
This is the truth of the matter,I have instructed the IMF to make sure that that fund was never transfered or paid unless the Attestation Report is submitted.I well know that you have no attestation report.What is attestation repart,it a report that is normally written after inspection of contract on the site of the contract execution.I got this attestation report but did not give it to your partners since the agreement has not been fulfilled.
As you are 100 % aware,you never did any contarct with Nigeria Government,rather you were fronted to transfer an over invoiced contract sum.($35).Which I well know but never disclosed it to any body.
I am therefore contacting you so that I can deal with you directly.Let us transact this business alone.I therefore do not want to deal with your prevoius partners as I have discovered that they are not honest and are greedy.
Well I have asked the IMF to contact you so that you can prepare to get your fund as they will release the fund to you,which was intercepted by them when they wanted to divert the fund to another person's account.
You are therefore to contact me as soon as you read this mail and tell me your readiness to transact this deal with me.If not I will find another person who will,but I feel it will not be wise to drop you after all that you have gone through in the hands of your former partners.
Thank you as I await for your response.
Yours Sincerely,
Adnan Mahama.


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