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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: charles_lilian02@terra.com.mx
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 20:20:02 +0000
Subject: Extreme Confidencial

Extreme Confidencial.

From Charles and Lilian Anthony.
Please reply us to this address:(ch_li02@yahoo.it


It is my pleasure to write you after much consideration, since I cannot
be able to see you face to face at first. Being the only son of my
father, late Mr. Mike Anthony from Sierra-Leone Africa (WA) I am 23 years
of
age.

My father was limited liability Diamond and Gold merchant in Freetown
Sierra-Leone before his untimely death. After his business trip to abidjan
to nagociate on a good investment business he wanted to invest in abidjan.

A week after he came back from abidjan, he got an accident with my
mother of which my mother died instantly but my father died after five days
in a private hospital on that faithful afternoon, I didn?t know that my
father was going to leave me and my sister after we had lost our mother,
but before he gave up the ghost, it was as if he knew he was going to die.

He my father, (MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PERFECT PEACE) he disclosed to me that
he deposited sum of $15,000,000,00 US Dollars (Fifteen Million u.s Dollars)
in a bank here in abidjan That the money was meant for his Diamond and Gold
company he wanted to establish in abidjan.

He instructed us to seek for a reliable and trust worthy foreign business
partner for our life time investment abroad. Now I have succeeded in locating
the bank here in abidjan also confirmed the deposit with most honest and
confidentiality.

Now I am soliciting for your assistance to help me and my younger
sister to transfer this money out from abidjan to your safe account abroad
so that we should invest it in any meaningful lucrative business in your
country because this is our only hope in life, you as our guardien.

I am willing to offer you 15% of the total fund if only you can help us
out of our present predicament. Awaiting anxiously to hear from you so that
we can discuss the modalities of this transaction.

I await your immediate response.

Yours sincerely.
Charles Anthony.


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