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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: "LATEEF SALAKO" <georggyg@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: apin@uymail.com
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 12:21:52 -0800
Subject: URGENT RESPONDS

THINK TANK CO-CHAIR, PROF. LATEEF SALAKO,

AIDS PREVENTION REVENTION INITIATIVE NIGERIA.

VACCINE THINK TANK(VTT)

HIV VACCINES FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

IN AFRICA.

BELOVED BRETHERN:ATTENTION PLEASE,

BEFORE I PROCEDURE,I WOULD APPRECIATE YOU TO VISIT OUR

WEBSIT AS FOLLOWED AFTER ONE ANOTHER:

1.http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/apin/gallery-archival.html

2.http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/apin/gallery.html

3.http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/apin/gallery-workshops.html

4.http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/apin/gallery-groups.html

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR VISITING OUR WEBSIT AND ALSO FOR

THE VIEW OF OUR PHOTOS IN OUR WEBSIT FOR AIDS

PREVENTION IN AFRICA COUNTRIES.

LET ME INTRODUCE MYSELF FOR THE FIRST PLACE,I AM

THINK TANK CO-CHAIR, PROF. LATEEF SALAKO INCHARGE AND

LEADER OF VACCINE THINK TANK(VTT)IN AFRICA.

WE THE ENTIRE MEMBERS OF VACCINE THINK TANK(VTT)IN

AFRICA BECOME YOU TO GODLY CONCERNING THE ISSUE TO

PREVENT HIV/AIDS INFECTIONS IN AFRICA/AND YOU SHOULD

UNDERSTAND THAT IN AFRICA TODAY MANY ARE ORPHANS AND

POOR PEOPLE DIEING ON DIFFERENT KIND OF VIRUS/DISEASE

MOST EXPECIALY HIV/AIDS.

1.(Of the 25 million Africans living with HIV, close to 4 million have advanced to the stage where antiretroviral drugs are necessary to forestall or reverse the onset of full-blown AIDS. Yet, only 100,000 of all those infected in Africa have access to treatment.)

2.(In just over a decade, the HIV/AIDS pandemic has reversed many of Africas development achievements of previous decades. It has reduced life expectancy in some countries by nearly 40 years and is the leading cause of death on the continent. The pandemic has emerged clearly as the paramount threat to development in the region.)

3.( The pandemic has killed 25 million Africans so far and orphaned more than 12 million others. Each year, 3.2 million Africans  8,700 Africans every minute  are infected with the HIV virus. Approximately 2.3 million Africans most of them in the prime of their lives as parents and workers are killed by it each year.)

WE FIND OUT WHY MOST PEOPLE IN AFRICA EXPECIALY THE

YOUTHS INVOLVES IN HIGH DRUGS AND SEXUAL PROSTITUTIONS IS

COURSED BY ORPHANAGE AND POVERTY WHICH LEADS THEMS

INTO MANY ATITUDES OF THE ABOVED MENTION.MOTHERLESS

AND FATHERLESS PEOPLE OF AFRICA LIVES UNCONTROLABLE

LIFES WHICH LEADS THEM TO DEATH AND NO ONE COULD

SPONSORE THEM IN

EDUCATIONS,FOODS,ACCOMODATIONS,MATERIALS AND OTHER

LIFE BENEFIT.THE WORST PART OF IT IS THAT MOST ARE NOT

RELIGIOUS THAT THEY HARDLY BELIEVE IN GOD.

BUT THANK GOD TODAY THAT OUR ORGANISATION HAS BEING

APPROVED TO PREVENT ALL THESE MISERABLE LIFE IN

AFRICA WHICH LEADS MOSTLY THE YOUTHS INTO INFECTION OF

HIV/AID AND OTHER DANGERIOUS DISEASE.ALSO WE HAVE

CREATED AND BUILD UP GOOD MANAGEMENT AND CORRECTIONS

TO AVOID AND PREVENT ALL THE RELAVENT COURSE OF THE

MENTION ABOVE.

I AND MY MEMBERS OF VACCINE THINK TANK(VTT)IN AFRICA

ARE HERE APPLYING TO YOU FOR FINACIAL SUPPORT TO SAVE

THE LIFE OF THE POOR/ORPHANS IN AFRICA AND ALSO

FINACIALY SUPPORT TO MOVE THIS PROJECT FORWARD.THE

LITTLE CHILDREN ARE ALSO INVOLVED AND CRYING FOR AN

HELP TO BE TAKING CARE OF ,MANY ARE IN HUNDER AND MORE

OTHERS ARE INFECTED BY DIFFERENT KIND OF DISEASE AND

INFECTIONS THAT WOULD LEAD THEM TO DEATH.

WE BUDGET FOR HOSPITALITY,ACCOMODATIONS,RAW FOOD

MATERIALS,FREE EDUCATION,FREE TRANSPORTATIONS,FREE

COMMUNICATION AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSHIP.ALL THIS

BUDGET REQUIRED FINACIAL SUPPORT AND FUND ASSITANT ON

THIS PROJECT IN AFRICA.

WE NEED $20 MILLION USA DOLLARS TO CONTINUE THIS

PROJECT IN AFRICA BUT RECENTLY WE HAVE RECOVERED ABOUT

5$MILLION USA DOLLARS FROM DIFFERENT PEOPLE ROUND THE

WORLD AS A CONCERN OF HUMAN SYMPATHISING WHICH GOD

SHALL REWARD THEM AND PROVIDE FOR THEM,BEFORE WE

STARTED THIS PROGRAM,WE SPEND ALMOST $7 MILLION USA

DOLLARS WHICH AFFECTED OUR ACCOUNT BOX TO REMAIN EMPTY

UPTIL MOW.

WE HAVE ALSO RECOVERD ABOUT $3 MILLION USA DOLLARS

FROM OUR OWN ACCOUNT MAKING IT UPTO $7 MILLION USA

DOLLARS TO RAISE THE FUND BUT WE FIND OUT THAT THE

MONEY IS NOT ENOUGH FOR US TO STAND/CONTINUE THIS

PROJECT.

YOUR DONATION IS HIGHLY NEEDED TO HELP THE POOR AND

LITTLE ONES IN AFRICA COUNTRIES THAT ARE SUFFERING DUE

TO POVERTY AND INSUFFICIENT NEEDS FOR THEIR LIFE

ACTIVITIES.

HELP TO RAISE THIS PROJECT AND KINDLY SUPPORT US

FINACIALY TO RAISE MORE FUND TO STAND THE HIV/AIDS

PREVENTIONS IN AFRICA.IF THIS IS NOT STOP IT MIGHT

AFFECT OTHER COUNTRY OUT AFRICA BECAUSE INTERNATIONAL

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AFRICA AND OTHER

CONTINENT/COUNTRIES OUT AFRICA.

NO AMOUNT OF MONEY IS POOR OR SMALL IN SUPPORTING US

FOR THE HIV/AIDS PREVENTION IN AFRICA,REMEMBER THIS IS

A DONATION BUT NOT AN AGGREEMENT BUSINESS OR

DEAL.PLEASE DONT FORGET TO REPLY US AND DONT FORGET TO

TAKE A LOOK OF OUR PHOTOS AT THE ABOVE 4 SITES

PROVIDED,AT THE FIRST SITE YOU CAN FIND MY PERSONAL

IDENTIFICATION AND OTHER OF OUR MEMBERS.THANKS AND GOD

BLESS YOU.

SINCERLY,

TANK CO-CHAIR, PROF. LATEEF SALAKO

ATTENTION:HIV IS NOW A SERIOUS PROBLEM IN OUR GREAT CONTINENT,AFRICA.ABOUT 25 MILLION AFRICANS(AGED BETWEEN 15-49)ARE INFECTED WITH HIV AND SEVERAL THOUSANDS ARE ALREADY ILL.ALSO,MANY THOUSAND HAVE ALREADY DIED OF AIDS AND AIDS -RELATED ILLNESS.

BENEFIT TO EVERY SPONSORED PERSON/ANY DONATED PATICIPANT TO THIS GREAT PROJECT:

1:WILL BE REWARDS FOR THE 4TH COMING AWARD WHICH WE RECIEVE FROM MOST OF THE PRESIDENTS FROM AFRICA COUNTRIES AND RECOGNITION OF CERTIFICATE AWARD SPONSORESHIP.

2:ATTENDING THE MEETING OF ALL AFRICA MEMBERS OF BETTER TOMMORROW.

3:RIGHT TO TRAVEL ROUND AFRICA COUNTRI ES WITH PERMIT CERFICATE TO INVEST OR HAVE ANY COMMON PROGRAMS IN AFRICA WITH FREE RIGHT OF OWNERSHIP.

PLEASE WE WOULD ALSO APPRECIATE TO HAVE YOUR PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION AND YOUR PERSONAL DATAILS(E.G. A COPY SACN OF YOUR DRIVING LICENCE OR INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT/ID CARD)AFTER WE RECIEVE YOUR DONATION WE WOULD ASK FOR THE ABOVE MENTION TO RECOGNISE YOU AND FILE YOUR DOCUMENT AS ONE OF OUR PATICIPANT ON OUR PROGRAM TO PREVENT HIV/AIDS INFECTIONS IN AFRICA.

ONCE MORE THIS WILL FAVOUR US AND YOU AS FAR AS THIS ORGANISATION IS PROGRESSING,ACCORDING TO THE PRESIDENTS/PRIME-MONISTERS AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE MINISTERS BODIES IN ALL AFRICA COUNTRIES:THEY ASURE TO OFFER ALOT OF BENEFICIAL TO US AND OUR SPONSORES.I AND MY MEMBERS ASSURE YOU THAT YOU WONT BE DISAPPOINTED BECAUSE WE HAVE RECIEVED ALOT OF AWARD FROM DIFFERENT COUNTRIES IN AFRICA.



1:Uganda : AIDS Initiative Gears Up in the North.

October 26, 2004 Kampala:

The northern coordinator for Uganda AIDS C ontrol (UAC) project, Mr. Peter Cunnyaai says that the U.A.C project is designed to support the reduction of the spread of HIV-AIDS.

2:October 27, 2004 Banjul:

About 14 participants from two community radios have recently completed a three week workshop on Hiv/Aids.

3:October 28, 2004 Morondava:

A group of twenty voluntaries from Morondava youth centre will follow an initial training on education in family life, communication, teenagers health reproduction, sexually transmissible infection, and HIV/AIDS.

4:November 05, 2004 Abijan:

The Ministry for the fight of AIDS in Ivory Coast has launched a national survey that will help in tracking effect of the disease in the presence of Non Governmental Organizations and United Nations representatives.

5:South Africa : More people are infected with HIV/AIDS in KwaZulu Natal of South Africa

November 15, 2004 New Castle:

The KwaZulu Natal provincial health department in South Africa has announced tha t 37.5% of people in the province are living with HIV /AIDS.

I AND MY MEMBERS ARE WAITING FOR YOUR URGENT RESPONDS .

THANKS ONCE AGAIN AND GOD BLESS YOU.



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