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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: mrsmabel2005@zipmail.com.br
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 19:34:34 -0700
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?God=20bless=20you?=

Attn,
From the personal Assistance to Late Gnassingbe Eyadema

Soeurs de l'Adoration
B.P. 30924 Lomé, République du.
Togo, West Africa.

I am Mrs. Mabel personal Assistance to Late Gnassingbe Eyadema the president
of Togo who died on 5/02/2005 and before his death he has sum amount of
money which is already deposited in a security company in the name of his
foreign partnership Mr. Frederick M. Wong, Meanwhile Mr. and Mrs. Frederick
M. Wong who was on board the ill-fated Egypt Air 99 that crashed killing
all passenger on board. Being her personal Assistance he notified me about
this fund and also gave to me a copy of the certificate of deposit I must
confess my statement is real, Now since my late president has died and his
Son Mr. Faure Eyadema has taken over as the president of the federal republic
of Togo, I have just escaped as the European Union and African Union including
West African Union has disassociate themselves from the new government hence
it is illegal for his son to take over government from the world longest
serving President since 1967 to 2005 therefore violating the constitution
of federal Republic of Togo that empowered the speaker of the parliament
to take over in the invent of sudden death of the President. I don't want
him to know about this fund. I am contacting you as a foreign partner who
can work with me and help move out this total sum of (us$35.5m United States
dollars) in the security company. And I really want to invest this money
in your country and I will give you photocopies of the certificate of deposit
issued to me by my late president, for you to be clarified. I do not expose
my self to anybody I see, I believe that you are able to keep this transaction
secret for me because this money is the hope of my life, I will offer you
30 % of the total money amount 10% will be aside for any expenses you may
inure during this transaction. As soon as I hear from you I will give you
all the necessary details as to how we intend to carry out the whole transaction.
Please, do not entertain any fears and I will make all the necessary arrangement
to enable you claim this fund as original beneficiary, as all necessary
modalities are in place to claim this fund, and I assure you of all success
and safety in this transaction. Please this transaction requires absolute
confidentiality and you would be expected to treat it as such until the
funds are moved out. Please respect our trust in you by not exposing this
transaction, even if you are not interested and my word is my bond.
Please get in touch with me for more detail
Thanks and God bless

Best regards
Mrs. Mabel Fadami

N: B PLEASE VIEWS THIS BELOW BBC NEWS WEBSITE FOR YOUR PERUSAL OF DOUBT:
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/world/americas/502503.stm
www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/02/08/togo.protests.ap/index.htm




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