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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: Miss Sua Sada <glorywilliams9@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: Miss Sua Sada <sua.sada12@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 22:02:50 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Greetings From Miss. Sua Sada,

Greetings From Miss. Sua Sada,

I know this mail may come to you
as a surprise, since we have not known or written before.I am
Introducing myself, I am Miss Sua Sada, 22years of age the only daugther
of the late Mr and Mrs David Sada. My father used to  working under the
UN in (West Africa), unfortunately he ran into some rabels and was
killed together with my mother.

Before the death of my father on
29th June 2007 in a private hospital here. He secretly called me on his
bed side and told me that he has a huge sum of money deposited in a Bank
here in West Africa, that he used my name as his only daugther for the
next of kin in depositing the fund.

He also explained to me that
this money was meant for my education and some other charity
works(motherless babies home and orphan), that I should seek for a
foreign partner in a country of my choice where I will transfer this
money and use it for in vestment purpose such as te mention projects
above.

Please I am humbly seeking your assistance in the following ways:
1-
To assist me get this fund out from the bank and providing an account
of yours where this fund can quietly be transferred into.
2- To serve as the guardian of this fund since I am still an undergraduate.
3-
To make arrangement for me to come over to yourcountry to further my
education, securea residential permit in your country and also complete
te above project.

Moreover, I am willing to offer you 15% of the
total sum as compensation for your effort/input after thesuccessful
transfer of this fund into your nominated account overseas, while 5%
will be set aside to offset any expenses that may incure.
Furthermore,
you can indicate your option towards assisting me as I believe that
this transaction would be concluded within the shortest possible time if
you signify interest to assist me.
Yours sinc erely,
Miss Sua Sada           

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