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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 Sussan Karim <babyshannon663@gmail.com>
Reply-To: sussan.karim@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2015 12:21:36 +0200
Subject: Please my dear, I really need your assistance

It is my pleasure to write you after much consideration. My name is
Miss Sussan Karim The only Daughter of late Joseph Karim, from
Sierra-Leone ( I am 19years of age. My father was former Director of
finance Sierra-Leone diamond, Gold and Mining Corporation, in Free
Town, the economic capital of Sierra Leon before his untimely
death.After his business trip, my father got an accident with my
mother of which my mother died instantly but my father died five days
after in a private hospital in our country. On that faithful
afternoon, I didn’t know that my father was going to leave me after I
had earlier lost my mother, but before he gave up the ghost, it was as
if he knew he was going to die.

My father called me and told me that he deposited the sum of Nine
Million, United State Dollars. USD ($9,000.000.00) left in
fixed/suspense account in one of the prime bank in LOME the economic
capital of TOGO. That the money was meant for his diamond and Gold
Company he wanted to establish in Tunisia, according to my father he
deposited the money in suspense account using my name as the next of
kin. My reason to contact you is to assist me to transfer the fund
into your account because the bank made an agreement with my father I
can not access to this fund only if I can having an foreign partner
from oversee to help me transfer the money and invest it. I will give
you the full detail's as soon as I
hear from you.

Yours Faithfully
Miss sussan karim

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