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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 clarion noble" <mrsclarion_noble2001@tiscali.co.uk>
Reply-To: mrjimfamily@freeghana.com
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 10:44:33 +0000
Subject: Greetings in the Lord from Mrs. Noble,

Greetings in the Lord from Mrs. Noble,

PLEASE HELP OUT I AM A WIDOW.
============================

Dear I am Mrs. Clarion Noble a Canadian citizen by
Nationalty.Wife of late Mr. Jim Noble. Please Dear I Seek
your kind assistance I and my late husband were
FARMERS living in Zimbabwe. My late husband Mr. Jim
Noble Was the
Owner (ceo) Diary Farms Limited here in Zimbabwe. We
Own three tobacco farms in Chipping and we also
Owner of Glendevon Farms also situated in
Chipping.

Zimbabwean government under the leadership of
President Robert Mugabe announced a decree on May 31st
2000, to seize wholly, white-owned farms.

During this period, as reported by international
Media, more than 10 white farmers halved lost their
Lives including my husband yet the government are not
relenting but have
Asked all white-farmers to give up their farms to
Black farmers or risk going to prison. So far, more
Than 1,400 white owned farms have been invaded and
Confiscated.

However, before the death of my husband we
decided to relocate to Accra Ghana and open a local
gold
mine company. with the 35 million us
dollars we retrieved from the selling of our
farms/equipments that we were having
in Zimbabwe then ship all the funds 35 million us
dollars to percific trust finance company in Accra
Ghana for safe keeping through the help of a United
Nation's (UN) accredited courier
Agency. It is very important for you to note that,
Through the help of a high ranking official of this
U.N. agency Mr. Mark {who happens to be an in-law to
one
Of our colleagues}, re=3Dparked the funds
consignment/boxes
{Before shipment}, purporting them to be simply,
Photographic films.

The fact is that the UN courier agency and the company
Does not know that the packages contain money worth
US$35,000.000.00. All in US$100 bills and they must
Not know because they will confiscate it if they do.


Right now i and my entire family are at the (refugee
camp) here in Accra
Africa were we seek for political asylum with all the
documents that my late
husband use to deposite the trunks boxes with the
company upon your reply we tolk because i want to come back home we left
for over 45 years now.

My dear I know that you are contented but I am
Contacting you regards a vital and urgent assistance to help transfer this
funds out of africa. I
Promise to reward you with 20% of the total sum. All
require is your kind faithfulness on this assistance.

Do send me your private phone and email contact to
enable us discourse effectively and i will which to
meet with personally before the transfer of those
funds.

I wait for your very urgent reply

Thanks.
God bless.

___________________________________________________________

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