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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: anne george <anne2005george@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 03:00:02 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: WITH LOVE AND TRUST



Hello my dear ,

I hope you are doing fine today. Thanks for reaching me , i am glad to see you, you are really a nice person from you mail and your words, i think you are the very type of person i 'm looking for, i feel you are serious and i will like to be a part of you if you wouldn't mind . i will love to be for you till the rest of our lives, i only need very serious and committed people like you,
I 'm not so okay over here honey, here is just so uncomfortable , and i am making all effort to leave here to have a happy and comfortable living with you if you wouldn't mind accepting me to be a part of you; like you know, i am living in the refugee camp here in Dakar Senegal.
It's just like one staying in the prison and i hope by Gods grace i will come out from here soon. I don't have any relatives now whom we can go to all our relatives ran away in the middle of the war the only person we have now is Rev Anthony Kwembe who is the reverend father and the general over seer of the church over here in the camp, he has been very nice to everyone of us here.

The Church's office Tel number is (00221-5160595) if you call and the reverend father there, that you want to speak with me; he will send for me in the hostel and i will come to speak with you. You can call from 11am to 4pm , London GMT time ,every weekdays excluding Sundays; this is the time the church office is opened .

As a refugee here i don't have any right or privilege to any thing be it money or whatever because i have not got the residence permit of this country which will entitle me to be a bit free in doing certain things and moving to the city.

I want to go back to my studies because i only had a certificate in general nursing and i was about to enroll for a degree in Nursing and Midwifery before the tragic incident that lead to my being in this situation now took place.

Please i would like to let you know that i have got with me here, my late father's statement of account and death certificate here with me which i will like to send to you latter, because when he was alive he deposited some amount of money in a leading bank in Senegal which he used my name as the next of kin,the amount in question is $3.7M(Three Million Seven Hundred Thousand US Dollars).He saw this country to be the most peaceful and secured country in Africa to deposit this money, this is also why i headed to this country for refugee.
So i will like you to be aware of this and see how possible you can assist me get this money transferred to your account and from it you can send some money for me to get my traveling documents and wait for you to come over here and pick me up to visit you.

I kept this secret to people in the camp here the only person that knows about it is one of the Reverend Sister here who is just like a mother to me.
So in the light of above i will like you to keep it to yourself and don't tell it to anyone for i am afraid of loosing my life and the money if people gets to know about it.


However i like you to send me some of your pictures and also try to call me through the reverend office phone line, my favorite language is English but our official language is French , but i speak English very fluently because i attended an American and English speaking private school all in my country for almost all my school.

I will like you to call me as i requested so that we can hear our voices, i have a lot to tell you. Have a nice day and think about me. I will be waiting to hear from you soonest.
Yours Forever in love Anne,

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