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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: suzanan vaye <suzanan@suzanan.orangehome.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 19:22:23 +0100 (CET)
Subject: From Suzana Nuhan INVESTMENT PROPOSAL


>From Suzana Nuhan INVESTMENT PROPOSAL

Good Day,

My Name is Mrs. Suzana Nuhan Vaye from Liberia, a Country in West Africa. My
late Husband is Isaac Nuhan Vaye, Deputy Minister of Public Works in
Liberia. My Husband was falsely accused of plotting to remove the then
PRESIDENT OF LIBERIA CHARLES TAYLOR) from office.

Without trial, Charles Taylor killed him. I don't know what extent you are familiar with events
and fragile political situation in Liberia but it has formed consistent headlines in the CNN, BBC news bulletins. You can verify this from some of the international newspapers posted in the web sites below:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2003-07-15-liberia_x.htm

Since the death of my late husband, the Government has frozen all his access
and accused him of the roll he played under the regime of Charles Taylor
that he looted from the Government Treasury and I have been confined only to
our country home and all my movements are been monitored.

Base on this punishment inflected on my fatherless children and me, we have no other hope
of surviving this unwanted situation hence I decided to contact you for assistance. I am therefore contacting you to assist me in channeling $7.2 million dollars belonging to my late husband into a productive investment venture and I look to make this investment discreetly under discretionary
asset management arrangement.

Please, I will appreciate your response to furnish you with more details of this fund and all replies in response to this mail shall be directed to my private email address:

suzananvaye@myway.com

Best Regards.

Mrs. Suzana Nuhan (Widow)

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