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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: willrich2000@handbag.com
Reply-To: richwilf2003@netscape.net
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 16:10:44 +0200
Subject: Re: Thanks for the help you gave to me !!

Mr Richard Wilford
Spain Barcelona
Email:richwilf@zwallet.com
Tel:+346 60 52 35 91

14-06-2005

Dear friend,

I am Mr. Richard Wilford, the only son of late Chief John Wilford from Sierra-Leone.
I got your contact from the internet directory and need assistance from you.
My sources of your contact gave me encouragement and confidence to write
you.

I am writing you in absolute confidence primarily to seek for your assistance
to transfer our cash of (Thirty Nine Million United Stated Dollars) (39,000,000.00)
now in the custody of the Security and trust Company here in Spain to your
private account pending our arrival to your country.

SOURCES OF THE FUND
My late father, chief John Wilford, a native of Mende District in the northern
province of Sierra-Leone, he was the general manager of Sierra-Leone Mining
Co-operation (S.L.M.C) Freetown. According to my father, this money was the
income accrued from mining co-operation overdraft and minor sales. Before
the peace of the civil war between the rebel forces of Major Paul Korormah
and the combined forces of ECOMOG peace keeping operation that almost destroyed
my country, following the forceful removal of the civilian elected president
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah from power by the rebels. My father had already made arrangement
for his family, my mother, my little sister and myself to be evacuated to
Spain, with our persona effort and the box containing the money. My father
deposited the box in a private security company here in Spain for the safe
custody until after the war when he will join us.

During the war in my country, and following the! Indiscriminate searching
of the public and government properties by the rebels forces, the Sierra-Leone
mining corporation. Was one of the targets looted and destroyed. My father
including other top government functionaries were attacked and killed by
the rebels because of the relationship with the civilian president Ahmed
Tejan Kabbah.

As a result of my father's death, our hope of survival was shattered. The
untimely deaths
caused my mother heart failure and other related complications of which she
later died in hospital after we spent a lot of money on her. Now, my 16 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 box deposited in a
Security Company.

To this effect, I humbly solicit for your assistance in the following ways.
To assist me claim this box from Security Company as co-beneficiary. To transfer
this money in your name and to your country and to make good arrangement
for a joint business investment on our behalf in your country, and you will
be the caretaker, and also to secure a college for my little sister and myself
in your country to further our education. And to make arrangement for our
travelling with you to your country after you have transferred this fund.
Most importantly, the security company officials do not know the exact content
of the box because it was declared as family valuables. The whole document
issued after deposit is in my custody. For your assistance, I have conceded
25% of the money to your efforts assistance.

If really want assist us in this transaction kindly send an e-mail to the
above e-mail address also to the below e-mail address. E-mail: rwilford5@excite.com
or richwilf@zwallet.com

Best of Regards,



Richard Wilford.



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