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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs.Femia Bangura" <femia1femia@voila.fr> (may be fake)
Reply-To: femiacl@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 19:24:57 +0200
Subject: I need your urgent response please since there are no more time on mt side

Dear Sir,

I am Mrs.Femia Bangura,a civil servant from seirra-leon. My late husband, Mr.Robert Bangura was the co-owner of an Agricultural firm and his partner happens to be among the white farmers that the dictator President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe took over their farmlands and handed over to the blacks.

Despite all the pleas from the International Communities, and members of the
COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES. Most of the company's assets, animal farms and milk industry were seized and confiscated by the tyrant President. My late husband was a British citizen of African descent and we both lived in the company's staff quarters but our lives were threatened by agents of President Mugabe. Since then, my husband and I have been living in exile here in Dakar - Senegal.

My husband died last August as a result of cardiac arrest. I am suffering from cancer of the breast myself and will be undergoing a major operation early next month,Ever before the untimely death of my late husband, he was in able to deposit sum of Twelve million,six hundred and twenty one thousand,one hundred and seventy one united state dollars(US$12.621.171.00) in ECO bank Senegal.These money is part of our life savings and what my husband inherited from his late father,from whom we took over the family business.

I would like to have your assistance to stand as my business partner to receive the funds into your personal account and investing the money into any lucrative business you deem profitable. I am 51 years of age and my only son is still too young at 25, hence we need your co-operation to secure this deposit which is as it stands now, the only hope of our survival as I have already lost my husband,coupled with my sickness and the situation of insecurity.
Life is no more the same with me after all the lot I have gone through.

All my hope will now rests on you, and I sincerely believe you will not disappoint me, I am expecting your immediate reply, so that I will forward to you the contact of the banks together with appilication text which you will send to them for immediate transfer of the money into your account for safety purposes while I prepare to come over to your country after my surgery.

I am looking forward for your aernest reply since there are no more time on my side while asuring you long term business partnership.

Warm regards,
Mrs.Femia Bangura


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