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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: allan pedro <allanpedro20004@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 02:06:00 +0100 (BST)
Subject: How are you ?



Attn,

>From the personal Assistance to Late Gnassingbe Eyadema

Soeurs de l'Adoration
B.P. 30924 LomôIöšblique du
Togo, West Africa.



I am Allan Pedro personal Assistance to Late Gnassingbe Eyadema the president of Togo who died on 5/02/2005 before his death he has sum amount of money in a security company which is already been deposited as family act fact. Being her personal Assistance he notified me about this fund and also gave to me a copy of the certificate of deposit I must confess my statement is real, Now since my late president has died and his Son Mr. Faure Eyadema has taken over as the president of the federal republic of Togo, I have just escaped as the European Union and African Union including West African Union has disassociate themselves from the new government hence it is illegal for his son to take over government from the world longest serving President since 1967 to 2005 therefore violating the constitution of federal Republic of Togo that empowered the speaker of the parliament to take over in the invent of sudden death of the President. I don't want him to know about this fund. I am contacting
you as a foreign partner who can work with me and help move out this total sum of (us$25.5m United States dollars) in the security company. And I really want to invest this money in your country and I will give you photocopies of the certificate of deposit issued to me by my late president, for you to be clarified. I do not expose my self to anybody I see, I believe that you are able to keep this transaction secret for me because this money is the hope of my life, I will offer you 30 % of the total money amount 10% will be aside for any expenses you may inure during this transaction. As soon as I hear from you I will give you all the necessary details as to how we intend to carry out the whole transaction. Please, do not entertain any fears and I will make all the necessary arrangement to enable you claim this fund as original beneficiary, as all necessary modalities are in place to claim this fund, and I assure you of all success and safety in this transaction. Please, this
transaction requires absolute confidentiality and you would be expected to treat it as such until the funds are moved out. Please respect our trust in you by not exposing this transaction, even if you are not interested and my word is my bond.



Please get in touch with me for more detail and send to me your telephone and fax number for easier communication.and notes the reason why I contacted you is that I want you to be my foreign partner to travel down here in Accra Ghana and claim this fund from the security company as beneficiary.



N.B.The reason why I contacted you is that I want you to be my foreign partner to travel down here in Accra Ghana and claim this fund from the security company as beneficiary.Because the irrevocable condition of the Consignment (money) can only be claimed with a foreign partner



Thanks and God bless.



My Telephone Number:- +233-242164161



Best regards,



Allan Pedro.









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