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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: "Daniel Mills" <danielmills05@msn.com>
Reply-To: danielmills10@yahoo.it
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 11:43:06 +0000
Subject: Hello



Dear Friend,

My name is Daniel Mills.
i'm a 65 years old man. i am british living in Dakar ( Senegal).

i'm a merchant and owned two businesses in Dakar. i'm married with two
children. my wife and two children died in a car accident six years ago
before this happened my business and concern for making money was all i
lived for.i never really cared about other values in life. but since the
loss of my family, i have found a new desire to assist helpless familes. i
have been helping orphans in orphanage/ motherless homes. i have donated
some money to orphans in sudan, south africa, cameroun, brazil,
spain,austria ,germany and some asian countries. before i became ill,i
Deposited some Funds as a Consignment in a Trunk Box as a Family Treasure ,
in a long term deposit account in a security company in Europe. presently,
i'm in a hospital.

My doctors told me i have prostrate cancer that i have a few months to
live.it is my last wish to see this money distributed to charity
organizations. because so much of my wealth has been plundered by relatives
and friends since my illness, i cannot live with the agony of entrusting
this huge responsibility to any of them since the money in the security
company is the last fund that i have left i am some how stranded in the
hospital because my firends and relative have misuse all my funds that i
left in thier posession.

Please, i beg you in the name of God to help me collect the deposit from the
security company in Europe and distribute itamongst charity organizations.
use your judgement to distribute the money and keep 5% of it to yourself.

Feel free to reimburse yourself when you have the money for any cost you
incure during the process of collecting and ditributing the money to charity
organizations. may the good Lord bless you and your family.

i await your urgent response.

please reply to this mail as i can only reply through my labtop I can not
talk very well: danielmills10@yahoo.it

sincerly,
Daniel mills .


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