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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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From: <missdoris_hamani1@virgilio.it>
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 15:43:54 +0100 (GMT+01:00)
Subject: Dear friend,

Dear friend,
With due respect, I write to seek your advice and
assistance for an important issue we need an urgent attention.
I am
Miss Doris Tijani Hammani. I am daughter to Mr. Amani Tijani from
Niger Republic. My Father is a Business man. He is a car dealer to be
precise in Benin Republic. We resides in Benin Republic. My father
nationalised to this country before he got married to my mother.

Right now, we have a very serious problem. He is now in an unjustified
detention. Our problem began with my father's relationship with Mr.
Mathieu Kerekou, the present President of this country. Kerekou was a
very good friend of my father right from when Kerekou was in the army.
Later due to their long team relationship, the formed a political party
know as PRPB. Then, Kerekou was appointed to represent the party for
the position of the presidency since during the country's presidential
election, base on the fact that he was once a minitry president to this
country.
Due to my father's financial position, He reached an
agreement with Kerekou for his presidential election campaign
sponsorship. Fortunately, after the election Kerekou emerged the
president of this country all from the hard effort of my father. After
a year into office as president, my father decided to remind him their
earlier agreement. That was where all the problem began. He now refused
to keep to the agreement he had with my father. my mother told my
father when this was about to come up, to forget about the money he
used in sponsoring Kerekou, since he was using his position as
president against my father. But being a kind of man my father is, he
decided to go for his right.
My father sued him to the court. But
two days to the hearing of the case their case in the court, Kerekou
set my father up with his evil cohort president from a near by country
here. My father was arrested on the counts of buying Government stolen
car and human traficking. a very serious offense. Since then till
today, my father has been in a waiting trial. This is more than a year
now.
You can read the issues of my father's case and the kind of
wicked alligations they put on my father from the following journal
sites;

http://www.thisdayonline.com/archive/2003/08/16/20030816cov04.
html

http://www.thisdayonline.com/archive/2003/10/20/20031020dia01.
html

Why am I contacting you, I visited my father last week at the
detension. He instructed me on what to do since there is no sign of his
release. My mother is now suffering from a serious heart failure after
my father was arrested on the wicked counts against him and the seizing
of all my father's properties and businesses and more wicked of it was
the closing of my father's accounts both here and overseas. my mother's
survival is only in the hand of God. my father open up to me on my
visit to him, concerning secret deposit of some money with a finance
security firm in Benin. These wicked people have no idea of this. They
are so wicked that that they have to sezied all my father's cars,
investments and properties. my father asked me to seek for a foriegn
person that we can use his influnce as a foriegner to withdraw the
deposit from the Bank. who will not betray us and help in investing the
money into a good business where my i and my brother will come over to
look after the business.
The exact role we need your help now, is to
present you to the Bank as our representative/proxy to withhdrawal of
the deposit from the Bank. I would have contact you before now, but i
had to inquire from the bank to know if we can present someone to
withdraw our deposit base on a circumstance beyound our control.
Yesterday, I got their response which was positive though with some
condition. They said that our request is grantable in their service
once we can present a court affidavit of claim and a power of attorney
that should be issued to our proxy. then the document they issued on
the date of the deposit, which is with my father's lawyer right now.

When my father's case came up, all vital documents were moved to his
lawyer for security reasons, including the documents of this deposit.
As soon as I receive your positive response, I will connect you to our
lawyer.
Please, We need your help very urgently. The total amount in
the deposit in case you need to know, is us$17.5million United states
dollars. My father asked us to offer 15% of the total money for the
person's assistance. My Private email address here
(missdorisamanitj1@yahoo.ca or dorisamanitj@bk.ru)
I will
stop here for now, while look to hearing from you as soon as
possible.
I thank you for your consideration and coperation in advance.
Miss
Doris A tijani
For the family


























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