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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: "Dr Yayale Ahmed" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <yaleahmed@yandex.com>
Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 23:33:39 +0100
Subject: INVESTMENT/ CONTRACT PARTNERSHIP

Dear Confidant

A very blessed day to you and your family.First of all i would appeal to your better judgement to take time to read this missive to you as this would largely change both our lives.My Name is Yayale Ahmed former Secretary to the Federal Government of Nigeria and presently chairman contract Review panel of the Independent National Electoral commission of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Please do know that this email is not coming to you by mistake, as you have been highly recommended to me.I would however in due course let you know who recommended you.As i thank you for sparing the time and effort to read my mail.You might feel that my proposal to you now might sound like a joke, I am sure you know that most serious things in life start as jokes. Even life itself (nothing can be more serious) is a huge joke.

I want you to know that my country has earned a bad name,over the years resulting from the activities of interlopers who have taken advantage of the situation in the country to perpetrate fraud.

In the past you may have received unsolicited mails,stimulating the intended transfer of trapped government funds, also. I do acknowledge the fact that imitations of the real thing(transfer of funds) are rampant. This is a pointer to the fact,and reinforces the fact that genuine transactions of this nature exist and do take place not only in Nigeria but also all over the world.

To the main reason for my contacting you, we intend to transfer the sum of $20.5million united states dollars for investment purposes in your country.However we are very much constrained by the fact we are career civil servants and we are neither allowed to do business nor have foreign accounts for transfers of this magnitude.

The source of the funds we intend to transfer is from the overinvoicing of card readers machines that were purchased and used in the last presidential elections in my country.The total contract was $330,000.00 million dollars,However the contract amount has been paid to the contractor who made the supply, remaining the balance of $20.5 million which we intend to process in your name or companies name for further investment in your country.

Our proposal to you as a confidential partner is as follows;

1. Act as a legal front to process these funds in your name or company name

2,Help us develop an investment portfolio/ business ventures in your country on behalf of me and my colleuges as we cannot logically do it ourselves

3. Profits accruing from the business would be placed on real estate investment and other lucrative business ventures to be managed by you pending our retirements.

4. For your co-operation and trust you shall be entitled to 12.5% on all transactions which is also open to negotiations. All modalities to get the initial capital of $25.500.000.00 to you in legal form are in place and 100% secured.


Please be conscious of the fact that all documentations to the processing of this funds would be acquired legitimately in your name or company name for the various Government agencies so you do not have anything to be worried about.As insiders of the committee we would start by registering you or your company as a company that has presence in Nigeria, with the corporate Affairs commission to be able to do Busines in Nigeria.

We would go further to register you with the Independent National Electoral commission as a Category A contractor.From there we would seek other relevant documentations to have the funds released to an account you shall designate.All these documentations however would be backdated to suit the purpose and time of contract award.

However, it might interest you to note that last year, we were seriously betrayed by a Scottish business man Richard Ackroyd of Ackroyd Corp. on a similar project after funds have been transferred to him and since we could not cry out publicly due to our positions in government we lost a total of $10,500,000.00 so this time around we want to be extra careful to avoid such occurrence.

In the light of this we would appreciate you send the following information as soon as possible as we intend to start the processing of this funds as as soon as possible tending to make use of the umbrella of political activities in the country right now to perfect this transfer.

please send to me the underlisted information

Full Names and address

Company name and address(If available)

Telephone and FAX numbers

Short profile on self

I would appreciate receiving these information as soon as possible from you,I would also appreciate explaining any other matter you feel not clear to you personally through telephone as my personally phone number is

+2348077974909 i would very much love you to give me a call as soon as you receive this email.

We also intend to bid for the turn around maintenance of our 3 major refineries which as insiders we surely can make up to as much as $500million dollars.All this we intend you to act as our foreign legal partner.

I shall send you a copy of my identification as soon as i hear from you, but please if this email does not meet you in the right frame of mind to be a part of this partnership,please delete it and do not use it against us as we are only trying to secure the future of our family through this legitimate means that our official position has bestowed on us.

Please do remain blessed as i hope to hear from you

Yours truly

Dr Yayale Ahmed

Please respond only to yaleahmed@outlook.com or your input would not be considered.

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