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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: favour zamba <zamba_favour@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 15:29:18 -0800
Subject: DEAR MY FULL LIFE STORY WITH LOVE AND TRUST

Hello my love.how are you,together with your work, hope all is well.
I am more than happy to receive your prompt response, Mine condition is a little bit hot over here in Dakar, Senegal, it's just like one staying in the prison yard, hoping by God's Grace i will come out of here soon. I don't have any relatives now whom I can go to, the only person I have now is Reverend Father Ezekiel who is the pastor of (Christ for all churches) here in the camp. He has been very nice to me since i came here.

My name is Favour zamba i am 24 years and the only surviving daughter of late Engr.Oniel R Ukec Zamba, My late father Engr.Oniel R Ukec Zamba he was the Chairman Gruv-Melton Oil and Gas Company a private extracting oil firm in Darfur. The brutal killing of my father, mother and kid sister took place one early morning by the rebels as a result of the civil war that is going on until now in Sudan. I was in my second year in Applied Mathematics department of University of Darfur in Sudan before the death of my loved Parents. I contacted you for a possible help and i don't have any relatives now whom l can go to all my relatives ran away in the middle of the war the only person l have now is Reverend Father Ezekiel who is the pastor of the (Christ for all Churches) 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 woman's hostel because the camp have two hostels one for men the other for
women. The Pastor's Phone number is(+221773291087))Email (father_ezekiel57@yahoo.com ) if you call tell him that you want to speak with the girl from Dar-fur Sudan Favour zamba he will sent for me in the hostel to come and speak with you. As a refugee here i don't have any right or privilege to any thing, be it money or whatever because it is against the law of this country and 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.
Please listen to this, i have my late father's deposit certificate 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 a bank which he used my name as the next of kin, the amount in question is $6.5 M (Six million five hundred thousand US dollars).

I wish to contact you personally for a mutual relationship that may lead us to a better place in the future if we can congregate in the same proximity with truth, confidence and sincerity. My late father instructed me on how to get the money he deposited at Clydesdale Bank Plc in London out from the bank, and that I should look for a foreign partner outside the country who will assist me to get the money transferred into his nominated bank account on my behalf, the person will help me to invest the money into a good business in his country of origin or outside his country of origin. Lastly, the person will take care of me.

I take you as my father and everything that I have in life. I sincerely ask for your assistance to get this money out of the bank. Your benefit for assisting me will be 20% of the total sum, while 10% will be use for up-setting of all the expenses incurred during the transfer of this money into your nominated bank account on my behalf, and then you will help me to invest the remaining 70% in your country of origin or outside your country of origin. I have contacted the bank about this money and I was asked by the bank to look for a good and responsible man who will stand on my behalf as a friend and trustee to transfer my money since it was instructed by my late father for the release of the whole money.

I kept this secret to people in the camp here, and the only person that knows about it is the Reverend, because he is like a father to me. In the light of its all, I will like you to keep it to yourself 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.

Honey i want to have your full information's such as.
your full name....................
your occupation................

phone number..................


As soon as i have all this information's i will give you the bank contact where the money was deposited for you to contact them on my behalf for the transfer.
Remember I am giving you all this information due to the trust I deposed on you. Meanwhile, I will like you to call me like I said that I have more to tell you.
Have a nice day and think about me, please I am waiting to hear from you soonest.

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