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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: "Engr. Ibrahim Dango" <hhh81@vir-gor-5k.cf
Reply-To: ibrahimdango57@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 08:37:06 -0500
Subject: RE:INVESTMENT LETTER

Dear Friend.
Your profile was given to me by a commercial attache in your country's embassy here in Abuja in my request for a good and trusted partner to enter into joint venture with. As you know we have never meet before but am trusting you based on the good recommendation your country's embassy commercial attache gave to you, please observe this matter with the high secrecy it requires, no third party apart from you and myself will know about this transaction for security reasons.

Below are the brief details of the business for your perusal, feel free to ask any questions for clarification.

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My name is Engr. Ibrahim Dango, the special adviser to Dr. Mohammed Bello (Ministers of the Federal Capital Territory Abuja) on Contract Awards and Payments. Through my office, a lot of contracts were awarded to some foreign contractors by the government. But my condition before allowing the Office Of The FCT Minister to award any contract to any contractor is that I will inflate the actual cost of the contract by 5%. All the contracts awarded have been successfully executed and the actual value paid out to the contractors. All the inflated 5% are now mine and have been released to me by the contractors. The total amount is 38Million Dollars.

For obvious reasons, I cannot deposit the money in any bank account in this country or invest it here, so with my influence and contacts, I have successfully placed the money in a in a financial firm in United Kingdom as an investment money owned by a foreign partner.

I want you front you as the owner of the funds to enable the firm release the money to you for a joint investment with you.

Your role will be:
1. Act as the original owner of the 38Million Dollars
2. Receive the 38Million Dollars to your custody/ bank account
3. Invest/Manage the funds as joint investment until I am retired or resign from government work.

Every logistics and arrangements to release the money to you has been perfected and it will be done within 72 hours after I get your acceptance mail/letter to partner with me.

Best Regards
Engr. Ibrahim Dango

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