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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: saliuaminata19yrs@handbag.com
Reply-To: aminatasaliu@netscape.net
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 18:34:39 +0200
Subject: AMINATA THE LOCAL GOLD MINER

Dear Sir,

How are you doing?,hope fine i guess,if so thanks be to Almighty Allah.

Well, i don't really know you before, Let me describe myself to you,I am
Miss Aminata Saliu and my age is 29 years old,i am a local gold miner from
west coast of sierra leone in the West Africa but currently I live in dakar-senegal
as a refugee due to the political crisis that occurred in my country.

I am a Moslem looking for a reliable and trusted person that i wish to marry
and spend the rest of my life with and have kids in future. I want you to
help me for an urgent asistance.i need a real person that have the fear of
Almighty Allah on his mind.

I am choosing you to assist me to transfer out my fund by standing as my
foreign beneficiary to the financier house where my fund is deposited here
in dakar-senegal.the consignment of this fund was lifted from sierra leone
to dakar-senegal by an America UN worker under the cover of UN and this 69years
old America man made me to sign an agreement with the financier house that
i will not have access to this fund until it been transfer out of the country
dakar for the sake of my safety.the total amount of this fund is USD$1.1(One
Million one hundred thousand US Dollars)only.

I do hope you are a reliable,truthful and trusted person,that I wish
to spend the rest of my life with as a wife or an assistant. so that i can
trust this fund to you,if your interest is noted,i will tell where my fund
is deposited and how my fund will be transferred.

Yours in-need,
Miss aminata saliu



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