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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: "Augustus John." <office11-----wee2@att.net>
Reply-To: augustusjohn41@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 06:58:17 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: DO NOT IGNORE ( Please read and reply now )



Assalamualakum.



Attn,



I am Mr. Augustus John (SAN). A legal counsel (lawyer) to Chief James Ibori; former governor of Delta State, the richest oil region of Nigeria.



My client (Chief James Ibori) was the duly elected Executive Governor from May 1999-2003; And from May 2003-May 2007. He handed over after a successful election was conducted in April of 2007. He is happily married to Lady Tessy Nkoyo and they have three lovely children.



Recently my client was arrested and presently in detention for abuse of office, corruption and money laundering; Which is false. The painful aspect of it all is that his assets abroad and some at home have been frozen by the London Metropolitan Police and Nigerian Authority. However, there is a certain sum of $22 million which my client secretly deposited in a Private vaulting company here in Nigeria with its head-office in Holland and this is unknown to the Nigerian and U.K Authorities.



MY REASON FOR CONTACTING YOU:



As a legal counsel to my detained client, I seek your partnership and cooperation to move the cash over to you for safe keeping in your country within the next seven days. The cash is contained in a trunk box and presently with a Private Security/vaulting Company in Lagos, Nigeria. Nobody knows the content which is lodged as "Gift items and Personal effects" apart from myself and my client's Wife. The situation my client's family is facing right now; require that we immediately move the funds from Nigeria for safe keeping abroad.



You can catch more of the story on this websites:



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7141047.stm

http://www.nas-int.org/index.php?opt...286&Item id=1

http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx? theartic=Art200712151532245

http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?t...00712213555757



YOUR ROLE:



All I need from you is to send me your full names and physical address, mobile telephone number. Upon receipt of the requested information I will update you on how to proceed further. You will receive 10% of this sum as Gratification and Invest the remainder in viable businesses of high profits like building a Tourist Hotel or Real Estate in your country from which you will share periodically.. I am sorry if this is not in line with your business. I need an experienced person like you to assist me to set up, develop the project and assume responsibility of ownership as chairman but will be bringing in profit /distribute profit monthly or annually.



Note that financing this transaction have been concluded, we only needed you to help us out to received the consignment.



Be informed that time is of importance in this deal. The transaction will be concluded within seven days of your readiness to work with me. By reason of my client position, you shall protect his interest in this business transaction and treat it with absolute confidentiality because We do not want the Nigerian and U.K Government Authorities to know about this deal for security reasons.Please, I would appreciate if you send Email to my private

box ( augustusjohn41@gmail.com )So that i can send my picture and

more information about my self to you



Kindly get back to me if you are okay with this proposal.



Regards,

Mr. Augustus john.

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