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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: "Beatrice Nyoun" <sdmnyso@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 11:50:53 GMT
Subject: Greeting and Hello



How are you doing today? hope fine.I know that my message
will be a surprise when it arrives in your mailbox.So I
present to you my apologies. I am writing sincerely in order
to get your cooperation that can allow me to make an urgent
matter with you.

My name is Beatrice Nyoun. I am 25yrs old and from Darfur
region of Sudan,I am the only daughter of my parents, late
Dr.Robert Nyoun, who was general manager Natural Resources
and Mines under the leadership of President Al-Bashir
Omar,My father was killed because he is from the region of
Darfur including so many innocent soul were killed in
Darfur. Presently I have no body since the death of my
parents,a relative who I believed are meant to be taking
care of me but he do not care all he could do is to forcing
me get married to a man of his choice so that he can now
relax to take over on selling all my late father's houses
and land properties and enjoy the money with her wives.I
wanted to make a complain but to whom will I complain to
since I have nobody that I trust, on this situation that
makes me to contact you to help relocate to your country or
to any other country before they killed like they killed my
parents.

It is for this reason that I request your help in the
following manner, to make arrangement on how I will come
over to your country where I can relax on. I am with
certificate deposit of little money that my late father kept
for me in a Bank with my name as her next of kin and I will
want you help me to transfer the money into your account and
invest it in a profitable sector in your country because I
don't want my relative know the existence of the money
because since he has taken everything that belongs to my
late parents to his possession, this little money now is the
only hope I have to take survive on this earth or , you can
give me other option that could be able to help me out and
I believe it can be concluded. Therefore,this is the reason
why I decided to contact you to find my way out here and
come to your country to continue my life and education

I am waiting to hear from you,
Yours faithfully ,
Beatrice Nyoun

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