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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: "Hassan Ahmed" <hassahemd@live.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:17:15 +0530 (IST)
Subject: Good day to you.

Good day to you.

I hope this letter meets you well, I am sorry if I have intruded on your
privacy or barged in on

you without your permission.

I have a very rewarding project which I think will be beneficial to both
of us putting

trust,confidentiality and most of all the fear of God into focus. If after
going through this

email you do not find it interesting please disregard it and send me a
formal response.

I was a member of the Abuja National stadium building and organizing
committee of the just

concluded "ALL AFRICAN GAMES" which was organized and hosted by Nigeria
but before now I have

been a director of sports in the Federal Ministry of Sports and Youth
Development.

We were appointed over 3 years ago to supervise the building of the ultra
modern Abuja National

stadium, putting in place all equipments needed for the completion of the
stadium which is

acclaimed to be one of the best in the world today and also involved in
the planning and hosting

of the games.

This project cost the government of Nigeria millions of dollars.

The stadium project has been completed, all equipments put in place and
commissioned and used for

the All African Games tagged "ABUJA 2003".The accounts have been rendered
to the government

satisfactorily and we have received commendations for a job well done.

During the construction, planning and execution of this project,as the
chairman of contract award

committee I was able to make some money for myself through contract that
was awarded to

Dewolfgang Gmbh which I over-invoiced to the tune of USD18.5M with the
help of Dewolfgang
contractor.

All I want you to do is to assist me in clearing this amount while
standing in as the owner and

Director of Vacknol Nigeria International Limited in whose name I made as
the beneficiary of the

funds.

Vacknol Nigeria International Limited is an international company and
could have a company

anywhere in the world the most important thing been that it is registered
here in Nigeria as a

limited liability company in line with the company and allied matters
decree of Nigeria which I

have since done, I have also in my possession some contract document which
will act as proof that

Vacknol Nigeria International Limited executed the contract as a sub
contractor under the

Dewolfgang Gmbh who is the major contractor that executed the contract
that was over -invoiced.

On the payment of this money to you as the supplier in the name of Vacknol
Nigeria International

Limited because I will apply for the transfer in this name,and you as the
director of the

company. I will come to meet with you so that we can both sit down and
discuss further, what kind

of business we will enter into or if need be expand your already existing
business, but actually

I hope to establish a five star hotel and go into real estate development
as these are life time

businesses that I know are of high yield interest any where in the world.

I know you will be entitled to some percentage of this money as
compensation for your efforts,

Please feel free to indicate what you will take from this amount,as this
is very important to me

before we commence proceedings.

I will tell you more about this when I hear from you. I will give you
every detail of what we are

to do. Please reply to hassahemd@live.com

Regards.

Hassan Ahmed

-- Sent at 15:22:24 on 08/19/08 through NITK (http://www.nitk.ac.in/) Email Gateway . AV scanning & Spam checking are done on this mail --


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