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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: frankogaga@tiscali.it
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 14:55:30 +0000
Subject: help

Dear one,

I am Mr. Franklin Ogaga. and my sister is Miss eveon Savin, we are the children
of late Chief Abudul omar OGAGA from Sierra Leone. I am writing you in absolute
confidence primarily to seek your assistance to transfer our cash of twenty
one Million Dollars ($21,000.000.00) now in the custody of a private Security
trust firm in Ghana (West Africa) the money is in trunk box deposited and
declared as
family valuables by my late father as a matter of fact the company does
not know the content as money, although my father made them to understand
that the boxes belongs to his foreign partner.

My late father Chief Abudul Omar Savin, a native of Mende District in the
Northerh province of Sierra Leone, was the General Manager of Sierra Leone
Diamond/Gold Mining co-operation (S.L. D.G M.C.) Freetown . According to
my father, this money was the income inccued from Mining co-operation's
over draft and minor sales. Before the peak of the civil war between the
rebels forces of Major Paul Koroma and the combined forces of ECOMOG peace
keeping operation that almost destroyed my country, following the forceful
removal from power of the civilian elected President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah
by the rebels.

My father had already made arrangement for his family thats talking about
my mother,
my little sister and myself to be evacuated to Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire with
the CERTIFICATE OF DEPOSIT he made with a security firm in
Europe through the aid of U.N evacuation team.

During the war in my country, and following the indiscriminate looting of
Public and Government properties by the rebel forces, the
Sierra Leone mining cooperation. Was one of the target looted and it was
destroyed. My father including other top Government functionaries were
attaked and killed by the rebels in November 2000 because of his
relationship with the civilian Government of Ahmed Tejan Kabbah.

As a result of my father's death , and with the news of my uncle's
involvement in the air crash in January it dashed our hope of survival.
The untimely deaths caused my mother's heart failure and other related complications
of which she later died in the hospital after we must have spent a lot of
money on her early this year .

Now my 18 years old sister and myself are alone in this strange country
suffering without any care or help. Without any relation, we are now like
refugees and orphans. Our only hope now is in you and the boxes deposited
in the Security Firm To this effect i humbly solicit your assistance in
the followings ways.

1. to assist me claim this boxes from the security Firm as our beneficiary
2. to transfer this money (USD$21M) in your name to your country
3. to make a good arrangement for a joint business investment on our
behalf in your country and you as our Adviser/ Manager

For your assistance, I have agreed with my younger sister that 15% of the
total amount will be for your effort and another 5 % to cover all the expenses
that may incure during the business transaction, Last, I urge you to keep
this transaction strictly confidential as no one
knows our where about.

Please as you show your willingness, Forward to us your full name, address
and Tel/ Fax numbers, to me via my private email address as
indicated bellow, this is for security reasons as i will only be
accessing my private email earnestly awaiting your response.

Thanks.
May God bless you as you assist us.
Mr. Franklin.




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