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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: Mrs Fatou Mbaye Sankoh <mrs02fatousan@yahoo.com.mx>
Reply-To: mrs.fatou@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 13:53:40 -0600 (CST)
Subject: From Mrs Fatou Mbaye Sankoh.


From Mrs Fatou Mbaye Sankoh.

Good Day,

I am Mrs Fatou Mbaye Sankoh the wife of Mr Foday Saybana Sankoh who was the leader and founder of the Sierra Leone rebel group Revolutionary United Front (RUF) in the 10-year-long Sierra Leone Civil War. View this site for more details: http://www.sc-sl.org/ruf.html, view this site for more details http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foday_Sankoh,

I am married to Mr Foday Saybana Sankoh for three(3) years without a child, But i had a son 17years back before i married to Mr Sankoh. My husband was arrested by the UN Troops and keep in the UN hospital costudy where he detained. While he was in the costudy of UN He reveal to me that he deposited the sum $10.5 (ten million And Five hundred thousand US dollars) with a Security company which he wanted to use for his political affair after the war, unfortunately he died in the UN costudy on 29 july, 2003. view this site for more details http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/752746.stm.

I have contacted the security company where the money is deposited and the company demanded for my late husband's foreign associate as my husband told them during the time he deposited the fund in the security company. Presently, I am in a critical condition in the hospital and my Doctor has confirmed that i have few months to live. Why I contacted you is because i want you to help me stand as my late husband's associate inother to invest this our only remaining inheritance sum into any business or investment that you knows too well in your country and to help my only son to complete his education.

If you are willing to assist me i want you to send to me your full personal contact details, so that i will submit it to the security company and also introduce you to the company as my late husband's foreign associate who is to receive the consignment deposited in their costudy. I want you to promise me that you will not betray me after the security company might have released the fund to you as my late husband's foreign associate.

As soon as i receive your personal contact details, then i will send to you all the necessary deposit documents and also introduce you to the company as my late husband's foreign associate and you will contact the company for the transfering of the money to you as my late husband's foreign beneficiary.

Contact me through this email: mrs.fatou@yahoo.com
Best regard.
Mrs Fatou Sankoh.



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