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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: "MR. MICHEAL OGUGUA" <mrmichelogugua@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 08:27:29 -0800
Subject: CLAIM'S OF YOUR FUND VALUED US$15.5 MILLION BY SOME RE-PREVENTATIVES

EDERAL MINISTRY OF FINANCE.
P.M.B. 14, Garki, Abuja
Date: 21-01-2014

CLAIM'S OF YOUR FUND VALUED US$15.5 MILLION BY SOME
RE-PREVENTATIVES


Good Day to you and your family as i bring to you greetings
in the name of the LORD.I do like to let you know that a
power of attorney and an Application Letter of Change of
Ownership has been forwarded to my office by MR. IBRAHIM MAL
ALLA HAMMAD BIN HAMMAD AL SABRI a Citizen of DUBAI,U.A.E, he
claimed to be from you and and also stated that you sent him
to receive these fund on your behalf. I want you to know
that your Registered Previous Personal Details which is now
in my Office was forwarded to me by the Neat West Bank
Branch and the Transfer Unit as well.

This man claimed to be the representative of your Family,
and this power of attorney stated that you have died, they
brought an account to replace your information and claimed
your fund of $US15.5 Million which is right now put on HOLD
in an Online Account that was setup for these gentleman and
the fund is with the Neat West Bank Branch In London,and its
highly secured and protected by a high level security which
makes nobody to withdraw any money from the account until
you or your family members confirms that you are alive and
also that these man
is not from you.

ACCOUNT WHERE THESE MAN(YOUR RE-PREVENTATIVES) CHOOSES TO
MAKE ONLINE TRANSFER:

BANK NAME:- STANDARD BANK OF DUBAI
NAME OF ACCOUNT: IBRAHIM MAL ALLA HAMMAD BIN HAMMAD AL SABRI
ACCOUNT NUMBER: 2984-0008-660.
SWIFT CODE: BOPIPHMM.
AMOUNT FOR TRANSFER: US$15.5 MILLION.

Be further informed that this power of attorney also stated
that you suffered and died of a throat cancer.All you just
have to do is for you to confirm if you are really
alive,because its sound furious that such kind of a thing
just happened ,I was Instructed to find out if it really
happens or not before the fund will be transferred to them.

Please these email demands urgent response as whoever do
read these if its you or a family Member or Friend who has
access to your email address ,should respond immediately.
You are therefore given 48hrs to confirm the truth in this
information if you are still alive by responding back
immediately so that these office can know what actions to be
taken,because they are just insisting that we ORDER out the
transfer of which we are writing to you now on their absent
to confirm if you are still alive.

Since no response from you all these while on how you can
get your fund released to you, we are now suspecting that it
might be true and funny that something strange might have
happened and that the story might be true, because the only
evidence now is you or your family members contacting these
office now and confirming if these people are from you,or
else we will transfer the fund to them.

Kindly Provide the following details for immediate actions
to be carried out:

1:Your full names:
2:Your Complete address:
3:Your age and sex:
4:Your Occupation:
5:Your Tel/fax:
6: Your I.D CARD/INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT.

Note: In case of any questions from you or your family
members that reads these email,call should be made direct to
my office mobile number.You or your family members should
forward to me emails been received from those IMPOSTERS for
adequate investigations to be carried out.

You or your family members that reads these email should
respond back as i await immediate response.

YOURS IN SERVICES
MR. MICHEAL OGUGUA
FOR THE PRESIDENT DESK
PAYMENT INSTRUCTOR.
E-MAIL:mrmichelogugua@yahoo.com
PHONE:234-7068367181

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