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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: Christian Rusang <chrisrusang@virgilio.it>
Reply-To: chrisrusan@pobox.sk
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 12:12:09 +0100 (GMT+01:00)
Subject: From: Rusang Christian

From: Rusang Christian

Dear respectful one,


Please, I am writting
this letter to you with due respect and humility wishing that you shall
not be offended to permit me to inform you my aims of writting to you.
Sorry I do not know whom you are physically and has never met with you
but my desire of going into relationship with you.

My name is
Christian Rusang, 19 yrs old , the only son of late Chief and Mrs James
Rusang. My father was the Chief Executive Director of a tin ore mining
/ export company based in Kigali, capital of the Republic of Rwanda
before he was murdered by unknown assassins suspected to be Hutus.

Due to the political problems and as the result of the 1994 genocide,
On the note left inside my father's car, they accused that my father
gave financial assistance to the Tutsi militia rebel oppositions. And
the danger continues towards me and my sister after we have survived
two murder attempts.

This made me to abandon my aged grand mother and
took my only sister to leave the country immediately for security
reasons and we are now in Abidjan under refugee status.

To be brief,
before the fate incident, my father earlier disclosed to me that he
intended to invest privately a ($ 16.000.000m usd ) worth investment in
Abidjan but later breeched the investment contract because of the
political crisis development there and he suspended the money there
with a bank until he finds a relaible partner abroad to invest the
money and never in Abidjan again .

My purpose of this letter is to
seek your most needed and urgent attention to transfer and invest in
your country on my behalf this $16m which my father before his death
suspended with the bank here in Abidjan.

I am contacting you as a
reliable and trust worthy person for this assistance as a foreign
partner so that after the transfer of the money to you, you can be able
to arrange the coming of me and my sister in your country for stay and
futher our education which was interrupted since all these difficult
times we are going through in our life.

I and my sister has proposed
(15%) percent of the total sum of the money for you, so as for you to
give us all necessary assistance and protections we may need in your
country.

We are currently in Abidjan from where i contacted you as I
confide in you hoping that you will never betray me at last .

Please
treat highly confidential because our future depends on this money, all
the vital documents covering the deposit in the Bank are with me here
in Abidjan and will be sent to you on demand.

looking forward to
hearing from you.

Thanks and God bless you.
Yours sincerely.
Christian
Rusang and sister.

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