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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: Paul Dickson <dickpaul_ab@yahoo.ca>
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 13:45:13 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Paul Dickson.

Dear Sir,

Compliment of the season, I will plead to you to
carefully go through this mail and keep the contents
of this mail private even if you are not interested to
assist, please still do not expose the contents.

I am Mr. Paul Dickson, from Liberia personal assistant
to our former President Mr. Charles Taylor who is now
in exile. I believe you must have heard from
international news that the American Government has
issued an international warrant arrest for Interpol to
arrest Mr. Charles Taylor any where he will be seeing
Mr. Charles Taylor called me to discuss on how to move
his wealth out of the Europe and Canada to any bank
that someone will be used as the beneficiary of the
fund because he was afraid of the American Government
locating the money and will confiscate it.

Please I will need your private discussion on this
issue and the possibility of you assisting to receive
this money for safekeeping and possibly invest it into
good industry in any area you can manage. This wealth
amounts to the tune of $28.5 million united state
dollars.

My Good friend if you will be a help to this issue
kindly get back to me so that we can have very good
discuss and set up the master plan to carry on with
the program.

I am waiting for your reply as soon as you receive
this information. Mr. Charles Taylor and i have agreed
that who so ever will assist in this transaction will
be receiving 25% of the total amount.

Thanks and be blessed.

Sincerely Yours,
Mr. Paul Dickson.



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