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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: "Mrs.Kante Cisse" <mrskante09@tiscali.co.uk>
Reply-To: mrskante09@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 12:20:11 +0100
Subject: Good day from Mrs Knate Cisse and family

Mrs.Kante Cisse
C/o Eglise Ouganda (Catholic church )
Liberte Sicap 1,Dakar Senegal

Dear,

I know this mail may come to you as a surprise.Nevertheless please don't
be,I am Mrs.Kante Cisse,aged 59 years, the wife of Major Moussa Cisse, Chief
Security Officer and Aide-de?camp to the exiled president Charles Taylor
of Liberia.

As a result of the on-going crisis in my country, I am saddled with problems
of my ill-health (protracted diabetes and high blood pressure) which is currently
of increase in the recent time but more importantly to me now is getting
a trust worthy individual abroad to receive the sum of US$3 million and 3.65kg
of Diamond on our behalf, this,I intend to invest in your country.

Due to the present crisis in my home city Monrovia, I managed to sneak away
with my son Patrick,23 years of age and my only daughter,Nana, 26 years,
out from Monrovia to Dakar-Senegal for our safety. We sneaked into Dakar-Senegal
through the land boarder by the help of some government militia group who
guarded our safe exit from Liberia.

After the killing of my husband by the rebels, we decided to come down here
to Dakar senegal to take a temporal assylum and also to secure the this deposit
as was made here by my late husband also, to further look for a trust worthy
person abroad to receive these deposit upon it's release.My late husband
made this deposit before he was eventually killed in my presence by the heartless
rebels when they invaded our residence in Monrovia.

I feel confident therefore to introduce myself to you based on this problem
and our present condition of stay here since all our foreign contacts and
connections got lost as result of the crisis which lead to the killing of
my late husband and the destruction of all his other properties and estates
by the rebels.I am desperately in need to move and re-locate this deposit
to your country for safe keeping as this is the only wealth remaining for
the future survival and well being of me and my family out of all my late
husbands estates/ properties.

For your assistance, a negotiable percentage shall be discussed with you
as I receive your positive response on this issue,our lives are in danger
due to our present state of insecurity and condition of our stay here.I plead
and look foward for your help.

God bless you as you respond to my plea for assistance.You may reply through
my email box or through that of my son at patrickcisse@yahoo.ca as he has
more access to the computer than myself.

Sincerely yours.

Mrs Kante Cisse.


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