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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: Sonia Bout <sb210101@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 10:00:07 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Please i am waiting for your positive response!!!!!


Dearest one, 



















































































































Thanks

for your immediate response, how are you doing today? Hope fine and you
are perfectly doing well in health. My name is Miss Sonia Bout. I am
from Liberia. 24 years old, 5ft 8 inches tall, single never married,
black hair and brown eyes. I want to assure you that Color, Race,
Religion, or Nationality makes no difference to me. What i
see in people are their Personality and Character. I have a special reason
why I decided to contact you immediately going through your profile
which I was well satisfied with. I decided to contact you because of the
urgency of my situation here. I am presently living in Dakar Senegal due to the Civil War fought in my country Liberia some years ago.



















































































































My late Father Dr. Victor Anatolevitch Bout was
a Minister and also successful Businessman, dealers in minerals of gold
and diamond, Air-transportation, reconstruction materials, and
agriculture, and he made money during President Charles Taylor's regime.
And I am the only surviving child of my parents.  My parents was
assassinated by the heartless rebels during the Second Liberian Civil
War when a rebel group backed by the government of neighboring country
Guinea. The rebels attacked our house one
early morning and kill my parents, together with my younger sister.



















































































































It's
only me that is alive because I wasn't around when this happened, I was
in the University where am schooling, I'm doing my first year in
accountant, I then manage to abscond to a neighboring country (SENEGAL )
where am residing now in '' REFUGEE CAMP'' . I decided to contact you,
due to the problematic situation which am passing through here in this
camp. Everything I told you about this money is real and legal. I have
suffered a lot since my father died. I don't have any body to look after
me, but I have
some hopeless ones who want to kill me too and have the money to enrich
themselves. That is why I don't want to have the money invested in my
country Liberia and that's why I ran away from home. We are not eligible
to go out from the camp unless we took permission. a It's just like one
staying in the prison, but I believe by God's grace I will extricate
here soon don't have any relatives now whom l can go to all my relatives
abscond in the middle of the war the only one l have now is Reverend
Steve Johnson who is the pastor of the ( Christ The Savior Int Church,
Dakar Branch) here in the camp he has been very nice to me since i came
here but i am not living with him rather I am leaving in the female's
hostel because the camp have two hostels one for women & the other
for men.



















































































































Please
listen to this, I have my late father's statement of account and death
certificate here with me which I will send to you later, because when he
was alive he deposited some amount of money in one of the leading
Financial company/Bank, which he used my name as the next of kin, the
amount in question is $4.7 US Dollars (Four Million Seven Hundred
Thousand US Dollars). So i will like you to help me transfer this money
to your account and from it you can send some money for me to get my
traveling documents and air ticket to come over to meet with you. I kept
this secret to people in the camp here; the only person that knows
about it is the Reverend because he is like a father to me. The Pastor
Tel. number is +221771008769, If you call tell him you want to speak with me, then he will send for me in the female hostel. 



















































































































 As
a refugee here i don't have any privileged to anything be it money or
whatever because it is against their law. The only opportunity for me to
get this computer is due to my duty of cleaning the main camp office
here in this camp, we are four girls that cleans the office but only me
have the good knowledge of computer due to we have that at home earlier,
please you can call me for me to hear your voice I want to go back to
my
studies because i only attended my first year before the tragic
incident that lead to my being in this situation now took place.



















































































































NOTE;
As soon as I receive your positive response showing your interest, I
will put things into action immediately and will educate you more on the
way you will assist me receive the money, in the light of the above, I
shall appreciate an urgent response indicating your ability and
willingness to handle this transaction sincerely. Regarding to the above I will like you to be confidential and don't tell it to anyone  for I am
afraid of loosing my life and
the money if people gets to know about it. Remember I am giving you all
this information due to confident I confide on you. I like sincere,
kind, respectful, honest and understanding people, truth and hard
working. I love English language but I would like to know many others if
God gives me the opportunity but I speak English very well. However I
will like you to call me because we still have a lot to discuss. I want
to know a bit about you and you can send your picture to me too because I
have just sent mine here as an attachment. Thanks & God bless you,
looking forward to your urgent and earliest response and have a pleasant
day.

























































Yours Sincerely,

Sonia.

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