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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: "Julius Bala" <juliusbala@msn.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:53:03 +0000
Subject: I NEED YOUR UNRESERVED ASSISTANCE


FROM: JULIUS BALA.
TEL :+447031905597
FAX : +448700685669


SUB:I NEED YOUR UNRESERVED ASSISTANCE

Sorry for the embarrassment this letter may have
caused you since we have not met nor had any previous
dealing whatever. The fact remains that I m truly
happy and also satisfied with your status.My name is
Julius Bala, a Sierra-Leone national residing at
present in London, England due to the war in my
country. I got some consignment with a
security company in Spain but I cannot travel to
Spain now as a result of my living here in the UK.
Am seeking asylum in the UK and also avoiding my
father's enemies whom stand as a threat to me, so I
don,t want thing that might endanger my stay
here which may worsen my situation.The content of the
consignment is money but was deposited as a family
valuable jewelry kept in trunk boxes, the tune of the money is five million,
seven hundred and eighty thousand USDollars.(US$5,780,000.00)

As a matter of fact, my father made this deposit
without my prior knowledge but as the heir
apparent of the family, tradition demands that I inherit all
his properties as he is dead now,this certificate
was handed over to me by my late mother before she
die. From the story my mother told me, this money has
nothing at all to do with drugs or does it have
anything to do with the government of Sierra-Leone, my
late father had a cordial relationship with the former
minister of Trade & Commerce who was killed during the
war .My mother told me, the money is from a diamond
trade which my father was covering up for his friend
which is not too legal to take to a bank in
Sierra-Leone hence he took the money to a security
company in Spain, for safe keeping, my mother also
told me that under special agreement the deposit was
made without inspection by the security company which
I was told cost him much extra .

Firstly, I contacted the security company in Spain
to confirm the consignment, and i was notified about its
existence and I had also established claim.
As you well known, the recent up surge of the war that
engulf my country did not allow me to make a proper
arrangement for the collection of the consignment from
the security company before leaving Africa. On arrival
in London I thought I could settle down and make
arrangement on how to move the boxes to my base here in
London but after proper studying of England banking /
monetary policy, I realize that it will be certainly
not possible since I do not have any good business or
investment that could account for the money, hence I
decided to seek for your humble assistance.

You are hereby required to act fully on my behalf as
my co-beneficiary so that the security company can
ship the boxes containing the money to you.

Meanwhile I have decided to offer you 15% of the total
money and also entrust my money under your good care
and control pending when am through with my asylum
issues. I beg you to keep the content of this letter
to yourself, to avoid any unforeseen problem since I
have not related this issue to anyone except
you. Please feel free to confirm the content of this
letter through my mailbox,juliusbala@netscape.com or
my fax line:+448700685669 or call me on my direct
telephone number :+447031905597 .

Looking forward to your urgent and positive reply
soonest and also hoping for good relationship between
us in the nearest future.

Remain Bless.

jULIUS Bala



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