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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: Amina Abubakar <aa8979265@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2017 23:43:39 +0000
Subject: Hi Dear.

Please I will like you to consider to accept this my proposal despite that
it will be surprise to you since we have not known or written before.I get
your email address when I was browsing in Google Face-book profile and
contact you for help, Mine is a little bit hot over here in Dakar Senegal,
In this camp we are only allowed to go out only on Mondays and Fridays of
the week it's just like one staying in the prison, but i hope by God grace
i will come out here soon.

I want you to please read my message very well, before replying to me, if
you are not capable to help me, since you understand what I real need from
you, please don't reply or waste your time.

My Real name is Miss Amina Abubakar. I am from Ivory Coast in west Africa.
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 Ivory
Coast in west Africa some years ago.

Dear listen to me now, I want you to keep this by your self,kept it secret
for me,if you tells some one about this i will stop communicating with you,
My late Father Dr. Adejola Abubakar was a contractor and also a successful
business man import and exporter during his life time, and he made money.
And I am the only surviving child of my parents, 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 Ivory Coast in west Africa 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 Father Mark 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 $8.700.000.00 Million US Dollars (Eight Million
Seven Hundred 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 Rev Father Tel.
number is +221-707-195-167, 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
goo 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 get to know about it. Remember I am
giving you s information due to confident I confident 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 pictures to me too, because I have
just sent mine here as an attachment, BELOW ATTACH IS MY REAL PICTURE.
Thanks & God bless you, looking forward to your urgent and earliest
response and have a pleasant day.

Yours Sincerely,
Miss Amina Abubakar.

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