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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.
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: Alima Christopher <alima_associates@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 00:46:54 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: Our mutual client. Our conclusion, urgent reply needed please
Attention: Pastor Ised Robert
Sir,
We have been anticipating your mail to know exactly what you really want us to do so that the Bank can remit this money into your specified bank account. Each time I am in the hospital to see Mrs. Anu Joy, she always insist that I contact you and let you explain in clear details to me what your true positions are. She even told me that you once wrote to her that since she is bequeathing this money to you, that she should not mingle herself any more with it and allow you to take full control on the proceedings till the money is remitted into your bank account for use.
I have thought over your mails to me and have made deliberations with my three associate partners and two Practicing lawyers in our Law Firm and came to the following conclusions as the way forward for all of us as I am being pestered by Mrs. Anu Joy to soft pedal on some of my tough stands so as to see to the fulfillment of the aspirations and wishes of God for this money to be put under your Godly care come true.
We have decided as follows;
(1) That we would use our finance to obtain the Legal Documents and send scanned copies of them to you and their receipts for your perusal and you will pay us for that one first.
(2) That when we receive the money for the legal documents obtained, we will use the money to pay for my Air ticket and train fares to and fro the bank and that of my hotel accommodation and scanned copies of the flight ticket, train ticket and that of the hotel accommodation to you and when we are in London and the bank remits the money into your bank account, you will pay for the money for the flight ticket, train fares and that of my hotel accommodations.
We do hope that this arrangement would be accepted by you and when we get the go-ahead nod from you, we can start up the process of obtaining those legal documents and send the scanned copies of the documents and receipts to you for payment to be made on the items collected first and then we can continue from there
Thanking you for anticipated cooperation so that we can serve you better and hoping to hear from you soon.
Yours in service,
Christopher Alima (SAN)
Senior Partner, Alima & Associates
Pastor Robert Ised <pastorised@googlemail.com> wrote: Sir
It is not a question of your fitness as a barrister or the diplomas you may hold it is a question of the actual laws of the state of Nigeria. I refer you specifically to section 419 on Advance Fee Fraud
Here is the extract from your laws :-
419. Any person who by any false pretence, and with intent to defraud, obtains from any other person anything capable of being stolen, or induces any other person to deliver to any person anything capable of being stolen, is guilty of a felony, and is liable to imprisonment for three years.
If the thing is of the value of one thousand naira or upwards, he is liable to imprisonment for seven years.
It is immaterial that the thing is obtained or its delivery is induced through the medium of a contract induced by the false pretence.
The offender cannot be arrested without warrant unless found committing the offence.
419A. (1) Any person who by any false pretence or by means of any other fraud obtains credit for himself or any other person-
(a) in incurring any debt or liability; or
(b) by means of an entry in a debtor and creditor account between the person giving and the person receiving credit,
is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for three years.
(2) The offender cannot be arrested without warrant unless found committing the offence.
419B. Where in any proceedings for an -offence under section 419 or 419A it is proved that the accused-
(a) obtained or induced the delivery of anything capable of being stolen; or
(b) obtained credit for himself or any other person, by means of a cheque that, when presented for payment within a reasonable time, was dishonoured on the ground that no funds or insufficient funds were standing to the credit of the drawer of the cheque in the bank on which the cheque was drawn, the thing or its delivery shall be deemed to have been obtained or induced, or the credit shall he deemed to have been obtained, by a false pretence unless the court is satisfied by evidence that when the accused issued the cheque he had reasonable grounds for believing, and did in fact believe, that it would be honoured if presented for payment within a reasonable time after its issue by him.
Show me you have expended the money and I can make an advance. If you cannot show me the expenditure then you are attempting to commit a criminal offence under the above law.
Pastor Robert Ised
On 8/19/06, Alima Christopher <alima_associates@yahoo.com> wrote: Open the attachment and see my certificate and my identification card as a lawyer here.May be,you think am just an ordinary person trying to convince you to send money without an intention to work for you.
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