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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: "Jennifer Stephens" <jennifer.stephens11@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 12:01:07 +0000
Subject: Reply Urgently.

Hello Dear,

Please bear with me for sending this letter to you
surprisingly. My name is Jennifer Stephens, a young lady
originally from Liberia in west Africa.

My sole purpose of contacting you is for you to assist
me in selling in your country or elsewhere of my rough
(uncutted) diamonds which weighs 14,220 carats,from
(3-45 carats),(3kg gross)on the scale,("H"VS-1
quality), all rough and worths about(US$8 Million).

I shall map out 10% of the sales proceeds as
compensation to you for your kind assistance. And 3%
will be maped out for any misscelenous expenses that
might occur during the process of transfering the
diamonds from here to your country.

The diamonds was deposited by my late father in a
holding firm here in Dakar-Senegal, and it is waiting
for my order to be transfered as I am the "NEXT OF
KIN" to the deposit as it is indicated in all the
depositional documents which i can send to you on
request.
Please indicate your acceptance to this business
proposal by sending to me your contact phone and fax
numnbers for our verbal communication.

Hoping to hear from you soonest.And until then, i
remain with the best of my regards to you.

God bless.
Yours truly
Jennifer.

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