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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: "charles taylor" <cty1000@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 18:34:32 +0000
Subject: good partnership

Dear Honourable partner,

It is incumbent upon me to write you today.I fear this
proposal will surprise you , but I trust my feelings will
excuse me in your eyes. I write to inquire from you for a long
term business associates/partnerhip irrespective of having meet
with you, but I strongly believes in you as a living being.

I am Mr.Charles Taylor that you know about, however,I am now
residing in Calabar municipality here in Nigeria for
political asylum to safe my dear life .

I am here for a purpose , my social security number is
#0014165/LB, A/C number:071006285, ABA Routing number:0210127994,
Deposit slip number:3061115.

Note that , this message adhere to top and utmost
confidentiality to boycott any sort of scrutiny.

In this my crisis , before I was accepted
and granted for political asylum in Nigeria the government
tooked nearly $150.million USD from me.

Apparently, I have a layout capital base of $900.million USD
that I intend to channelizeinto a business secretely.


I need your assistant through financial advisory services.
Please advise if you can be my business associates to help me
channelize these said funds into a small scale business enterprise
since
I have no
liberty for now.
Reply and copy to my personal e-mail; charles200500@yahoo.co.uk
Thanks.

MR.CHARLES TAYLOR


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