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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: m_a2005@terra.com.mx
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 20:06:13 +0200
Subject: Dear Friend,

Dear Friend,

After going through your profile iit pleases me to contact
you and to inform you of my desire to go into business with
you.

My name is Madam Alena Cheng Seang. A complete citizen of
the Malaysia,widow to the late Mr Ong Cheng Seang who died on 15th of
May 2002.

My husband died of ulcer and he has been buried.

I inherited a total sum of 10.5 million dollars from my
late husband, this money which is concealed in a metallic
trunk box is deposited with a security and finance company
here in Cote D' Ivoire Due to the instruction he laid down
before he deposited the box, that he needed maximum
security/safety of my consignment and no body nor
government organization can trace where about of the
box until were ready and prepare to claim it.

This deposit was coded under a secret arrangement as a
family treasure.This means that the security company does
not know the content of this trunk box.

My main purpose of sending you this mail is because of the
way I found you and perhaps trustworthy to give you this
priority of shipping the box of money to any address that
you think is very secure and save in your country with your
percentage of which we shall chat on soon.

In fact, since the death of my husband, his brothers has
been seriously chasing me around with constant treats,
trying to suppress me so that they might have the documents
of his landed properties and confiscate them. They have
successfully collected all his properties, yet they never
stopped there, they told me to surrender all bank account
of my late husband,which I did, but I never disclose to
them this deposit with the security company in
Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire, because this is where my future and
destiny lies upon.

The family of my late husband never aware of the secret
existence of this deposit which my late husband made with the security
company and they can never be aware of it.

Out of fear of my late husbands family, and when the
situation becomes uncontrollable because of pressure on me
from the family, I decide to look for a trustworthy person who could
assist me retrieve this
box of money from the security company for onward lodgement
into his account for the purpose of future investment.Consider my
situation as a widow and come to my rescue.

There is need for urgent action because I'm paying $50
dollars per day as a demurrage to the security company for
safe keeping this consignment.

I give thanks immensely for your co-operation as I look
forward to hear from you soon. ( m_a2005@jumpy.it )


All the best,
Madam Alena Cheng Seang.
















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