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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: "am5059 am5059" <am5059@msn.com>
Reply-To: precioushouse900@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 09:49:25 +0000
Subject: HELLO

Good Day ,
I am contacting you believing you are a honest and trust worthy person.I
believe you will not betray the confidence. I am willing to repose in
you , for me to have contacted you even though we've not met before.
My name is NAFISAT ALDAMA, the wife  of  late Mr. HUSSEIN ALDAMA
who was the chairman / President/Ceo,Cacao-Café & Agro-Alimentaire
industrie Plc.(SCAFECAO)"Bouake" and ex-owner of Polyclinic
LA-MADONNE, of the Republic of Cote d'Ivoire.
On 19th of September 2003,a group of so called rebels took over the
city of Bouake to over-throw the Government of Mr. Laurent Gbagbo the
President of Cote d'Ivoire. On the next day morning at about 4:18am some
fractions of the same group of rebels break into our house and killed our
security guard and pass-through the gate entrance to the main building
and took my husband  away to an un-known destination.
After about four hours later we found him (my late husband ) at the road side,
by then he had been totally beaten and was bleeding to death lying in
the pool of his own blood. From there, we rushed him to a near by
hospital and hours later  he said can not
not make it from the doctors diagnosis, he also told me  that it was
because he  was not from the northern part of the country that
he has been treated this way and also being a political activist.

And again he said he is suspecting some of his business partners for
conspiracy and this sort of brutality. He also said  that he
deposited a huge amount of money about US$ 10.5 million dollars(Ten
million five hundred thousand us dollars only)in a Finance house in europe
  the whole
documents
concerning this deposit that is made for investment purpose in the western
world.
That same day, he  gave up the ghost. Then with the help of
the French soldiers, we escaped to Senegal, where we are now. I am now
contacting you believing you are honest and trust worthy to help us to
receive the money in your account for investment, I have
decided in compensating you 20%of the total amount for your assistance .
Please do take your time to go through the mail and get back to me so
that I will simply introduce you to the Finance house where the fund are
being kept now for onward transfer.
I am waiting for your response.
please reply to my private mail precioushouse900@yahoo.ie
Thanks and God bless.
NAFISAT ALDAMA

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