The e-mail here is just one type of the thousands of scam e-mail variants sent out each day by 419 scammers. If you've received an e-mail even remotely similar to the one on this page or if you have arrived at this page via an internet search resulting from an e-mail that you received, I can 100% guarantee that YOU HAVE RECEIVED A SCAM E-MAIL!

This is an internet scam! Do NOT send these scammers money for any reason. [ BEGIN SCAM E-MAIL ]   From:     edmond daukuro <dr.edmonddaukuro00013@googlemail.com> Reply-To:     dr.edmonddaukuro1@yahoo.com Subject:     Very Urgent:Your Payment Approval Notification Date:     Sun, 14 Sep 2008 15:49:52 +0100 (10:49 EDT) Very Urgent:Your Payment Approval Notification ===================                              OFFICE OF THE MINISTER OF FINANCE                              LAGOS NIGERIA                                                             Very Urgent:Your Payment Approval Notification     I am Dr.Edmond Daukuro, Director of Operations Federal Ministry of Finance Federal Government of Nigeria. We apologize  for the delay of your payment and all the inconveniences and inflict that we might have indulged you through. However, we were having some minor problems with our payment system, which is inexplicable, and have held us stranded and indolent, not having the aspiration to devote our 100% assiduity in accrediting foreign contract payments.   We apologize once again. I have been instructed by the Hon. Minister of finance to find out before the end of this month, why your payment transfer with interest value at US$15.8Million Dollars being your unclaimed payment. However, their are two gentlemen here who came from your country to claim your funds on your behalf as you have instructed them due to your terminal illness.In this regard, kindly reconfirm these information to us for proper identification, and to know if you are the one that sent them for the claim. Below is the information that you are to reconfirm to my office immediately.   1)Your Full names 2)Scanned Photo ID Identification 3)Your Home Phone Number and Your Cell phone numbers 4)Home address 5)Occupation   Upon proper verification, The Hon. Minister of Finance will Immediately sign your payment release approval.Our desire is to serve you better. Thank you.   Congratulations   Your Sincerely,   Dr Edmond Daukuro.Director of OperationsFederal Ministry of Finance   [ END SCAM E-MAIL ]

It's important to note that any real people or legitimate organizations mentioned in these scam e-mails have absolutely no connection with this scam! The scammers never use their real names. They frequently take on the identity of real people to help them convince you that they are genuine. Whatever these scammers tell you, DON'T believe a word of it!!!

This is just a small sampling of the many hundreds of advance fee fraud e-mails received each day here at 419 BAITER headquarters.

There are many different types of 419 scam (examples) but they all promise you something (fortune, job with salary/commision, low-interest loan, lottery prize, cheap gold dust/diamonds, work visa, etc.) in return for a small 'fee' or some kind of remittance. Of course, there is no fortune, no job, no loan, no prize to be had. It's just a ploy to get you to willingly send them money.

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NOTE TO SPAMMERS: My scam e-mail filtering system is pretty good but it isn't perfect. Occasionally a regular spam e-mail may get mistakenly published as a 419 scam. This is inadvertent. If you are a spammer and you don't wish to have your spam e-mail published on this website, the solution is simple. Don't send me spam.