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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: "princess esien" <princessesien@msn.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 00:22:23 +0000
Subject: CAN I TRUST YOU

Hello And Goodday,

pls go through and reply me urgently I am writing this letter in confidence
believing that if it is the wish of God for you to help me and my family,
God almighty will bless and reward you abundantly. My family and I are true
Christians and worship's God truthfully. I got your contact through your
country email directory during my research on some one who could help us. I
am a female student from University of Nigeria, Lagos. I am 25 yrs old. I?d
like any person who can be caring, loving and home oriented. I will love to
have a long-term relationship with you and to know more about you. I would
like to build up a solid foundation with you in time coming if you can be
able to help me in this transaction. Well, my fathers died earlier two
months ago and left my mother I and my junior brother behind. He was a king,
which our town citizens titled him before his death. I was a Princess to him
and I and my brother are the only people who can take Care of his wealth now
because my mother is not literate enough to know all my father?s wealth
behind. He left up to USD 3, 000, 000.00 dollars (THREE MILLION US DOLLARS)
with a security company, and I don?t know how and what I will do to invest
this money somewhere in abroad, so that my father?s kindred will not take
over what belongs to my father and our family, which they were planning to
do without my consent because I am a female as stated by our culture in the
town. That is why I felt happy when I saw your contact which I strongly
believe that by the grace of God, you will help me secure and invest this
money. I thereby need your help in transfering this money out from the
security company were this money is deposited by my father based on your
reply I will furnish you with more details on how we can proceed. I am ready
to pay 10% of the total amount to you if you help us in securing this money
and another 10% interest of Annual Income to you, for handling this business
for us, which you will strongly have absolute control over. If you can
handle this project sincerely and also willing to assist me in lifting this
fund, kindly reach me and, I will let you know the next step to take towards
actualizing this transaction as quickly as possible. Please, note that this
transaction is 100% risk free.my private emailbox is
princessessien07@yahoo.co.uk , I look forward hearing from you soonest. ,

Yours sincerely

Princess essien


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