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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: tijan@terra.com.mx
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 10:18:51 +0000
Subject: From Mrs Matha& son jacob KABILA.

From Mrs Matha& son jacob KABILA.

ATTN.,PLEASE,

I quietly believed that my letter will come to you as a surprise to you
or may even embarace you, being that you don't know me. I wish to use this
medium to introduce myself to you. My name is MRS .Matha .kabila,,the third
wife of Late President LUARENT KABIL,The former President of The Congo DR
.As the third wife of my late Husband, I am a mother of two children.

I must solicit for your assistance to recieve the sum of ($15.5 million
dollars) from a security company where my late husband deposited The sum
as personal effect for security reasons.Because it was not our tention to
negociate or to move out this money out from this Country Cote DIvire where
the money has being with security company for safe keeping till this date.The
reason we have made up our mind to move this money out from here because
of this autmatic mandatray to the President of this country LUARENT GBABGO
oF Cote d Ivoire have recieved immedaitely mandatary from the world leaders
to steep down immedaitely.So now there is no assurance for us that is here.Please
I need your assistance to stand for us to recieve this money as we have
disscused with the security company about to retrieve of our consignment
from their custody.Note that the security company dose not know that the
is content of the box is money.If you are willing to assist me and my children.Pls
contact us for the urgent arrangment.We have agreed to offer you %15 commission
for your assistance.

Best regards.

Mrs Matha& son jacob KABILA.

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