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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: "MISS JUDITH HILLOH N" <jdhns2009@yahoo.com.au> (may be fake)
Reply-To: judith689j4@latinmail.com
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 21:09:10 +0100
Subject: FROM MISS JUDITH (CALL ME PLEASE) I AM WAITING.

Good day,

l and my mother want you to call us on this telephone
number,TEL.00229-208280 BININ COTONUE, for proper
arrangement and more details, on how
you can help us move the sum of fifty-six million united
state
dollars(56 M USD)from a private security trust firm n
GHANA to your own bank
account in your country for investment in your country.
Your share for this help will be 10 % of the total money
of fifty-six million united state dollars.

EMAIL/ judith689j4@latinmail.com
Tell: TEL.00229-208280
I am waiting to hear from you (ASAP) for more details
The full story is bellow.


__________________________________________________________________

My name is Judith , 19-yr old daugther of David Hillo
N’Goran.
Sometime back the community leader and
leading diamond merchant in the town of Bin Houye a
diamond rich town in cote d’ voure 37 km from the
Liberian border,with the help of Liberian government
seized the town ,burning houses and other properties
setting of whole families on fire.
according to Router’s radio network monitored the
loyalist have killed entire families and they are
burning all the houses in Bin Houye .
Sinc that time till now, we have not set eyes on my
father.
Right now I live in with my mother in a shack in BININ
COTONUE,
dispossessed, distraught and wallowing in an abject
poverty as we excapt from
the town with noting, but as God will have it, we ran into
a good man
here in COTONUE who took it upone himself taking care of
us, which he is
still the access l have to the net to comunicate you.
Although I did not in any way disclose to anybody even him
the details
of this proposal due to confidential nature of it.
Meanwhile in the key days of our family business my
father trading company jemina investment had over time
deposited the sum of fifty-six million united state
dollars(56 M USD)in a private security trust firm in
Ghana.
The keys of the boxes are with my mother, including the
deposite
documment to effect the movement of the boxes from the
company.
What we seek and seek desperately is a trusted foreigner
who is
completely unconnected to all these carnage happenings in
Africa, who can be
empowered and entrusted with the responsibility of moving
these
funds to safety for some investment in your country.
Later when we secure the box from Ghana with you,l
and my mother can then rely upon you to make travel
arrangements to join you in your country.
This transaction requires absolute honesty.
Call us on this telephone for more clarifications and
proper aggreement.

TEL. TEL.00229-208280 or reply here
judith689j4@latinmail.com


Best regards,
Miss.Judith David Hillo


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