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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: ayii31@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:51:19 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Mr.Richard Akuabia has forwarded a page to you from lakeland.x2idea.net

Mr.Richard Akuabia thought you would like to see this page from the lakeland.x2idea.net web site.
Message from Sender:

Compliments of the Day,

I am soliciting for business proposal to make with you. I do seriously need your help because I am disabled from a motor accident and I cannot travel abroad on my Doctor’s advice.
I was an Oil consultant based in the United Kingdom , and because I helped a lot of foreign Oil Companies to get Crude Oil Lifting Rights and lucrative oil contracts from Nigeria , I was able to amass a fortune worth USD25million. On 20th December 2008 I left the UK finally with my family, and came back to Nigeria .
But because of the unfavorable political and economic climate in Nigeria, and for security reasons, I left my money total SD25million in a Security Safe Deposit Vault in Brussels .
I was travelling home with my entire family we failed into a ditch and hard a fatal auto accident , about 100 km from Port Harcourt Rivers States; I lost my entire family in the accident, and I myself fell into coma for six days,I eventually recovered from coma, and was discharged from the hospital after about nine months in the hospital being a paralysed man

My extended family here abandoned me in hospital when they realized that the money which I came back with had been spent on hospital bills. I am currently living on the charity of the church. And now, I need your help to collect this money in a security Company in Brussels and invest it in a profitable venture abroad especially into area of real estate. I cannot sponsor any one to travel to Brussels for the claim of this fund in the security Company where it was being deposited before my exit from Uk.
If the money is properly and profitably invested abroad, I intend to leave Nigeria permanently, Can I count on your help?,
If you agree to help me, I will send you by courier the ELECTRONIC CARD KEY of the consignment and the certificate of deposit so that you can travel to Brussels to claim the funds on my behalf .
For your help and assistance, I will give 15% of the total amount ,while 10% will be kept aside for any expenses that we might incur in the process of claiming the funds from the security Company, and 75% will be for my investment into the real estate sector in your country until I travel to meet you and invest my share. If you agree to help me, please reply giving me the following information:

1. Your Complete name and Street (POSTAL) address
2. Your Phone and fax number, including mobile
3. Your confidential email address.

Thanks for your kindness, I am awaiting to hear from you.

Best Regard
Mr Richard

Here we are again
by Whitney

Well hope everyone had a great reading week. Here we are back at it again for a few more weeks. As nursing students we only have a couple weeks of classes left and then off to our praticums we go. It is hard to believe we have all come so far this year already and that it is just about march. Now that the breaks for the year are over that means it is just about crunch time so just make sure to keep your head above the water, do not forget to enjoy yourself to keep the stress level down.
Have a good one,
Whitney


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