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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: danail selense <dnlselense2002@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 22:49:37 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: I assure you


Dear Friend,

With profound gratitude and humility i extend my warmest greetings to you and
your family, i know you will be surprise to recieve this letter from somebody you
have never met for once but it came to you with good intensions so pls take time
and study the contents as it is for our mutual benefits.
I'm mr Danial Selense from the republic of togo and my mother was a lady friend to
the late president EYADIMA of togo who killed my father because of his illicit acts
with my mother and since the death of my father the former president warned my
mother not to remarry another man or he will kill her and the would be man so she
kept on with him and most of his secrets was made known to my mother but one
thing led to another she got sick and was flown to abroad for treatment and she did
not survive but before that i acompanied her one day to (accra ghana) where she
went and deposited a trunk box for president EYADIMA containing $9.7 000 000 as family treasures but when my mother died last year i ran away from togo because
the president was after me because of the documents of the deposits and other
ones he gave to my mother so now he is death and i want you to help me claim the
fund as all the documents is with me because this is my only oppurtunity.
Pls i want you to act as his partner so that this fund will be released to you, i assure
you of no risk and i promise to compasate you with 25% if you will assist me claim the
fund, so contact me immediately you get this letter if you are interested and i will
give you the details on how to carry out this mutual assingment successfully.

pls treat this with high confidenciality because his wicked son has just been elected
as the countries president to succeed his wicked father and to continue from where
he stopped with his evil deeds.
I'm currently staying in ghana so that it will be easier for us to move this fund out to
your country for investment.

Best regards
Mr Selence.





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