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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: morine dickson <morinelove2006@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 14:51:15 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: FROM MORINE CHRISTIANA DICKSON


DEAREST DARLING.
please Permit me to inform you of my desire of going
into business relationship with you. I got your name and contact through a dating site in dakar senegal in the western part of africa and I prayed over it and selected your name among other names due to its esteeming nature and the recommendations given to me as a reputable and trust worthy person that I can do business with and by the recommendation , I must not hesitate to confide in you for this simple and sincere business I am morine christiana dickson the only daughter of late Mr. andMrs. COL. sammuel dickson i am a sierreleonain but right now i am writting from a refugee camp in my neighboureing country senegal also in the western part
of africa . i am 22 years old and My late father was avery wealthy cocoa merchant insierreleon the economiccapital of freetown, my father was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outings on a business trip .My mother died when I was a baby and since then my father took me so special. Before the death of my father on october 2004 in a private hospital in sierreleon he secretly called me on his bed side and told me that he has the sum of seven million,five
hundred thousand United State Dollars cash.USD ($7.5MILLION US DOLLARS) left in fixed / suspense account in our neigbouring country bank in senegal called BANK OF AFRICA also in the west apart of africa,that he used my name as his only daughter for
the next of Kin in depositing of the fund. He also explained to me thatit was because of this wealth that he was poisoned byhis business associates.That I should seek for a foreign partner in a foreign country of my choice where iwill transfer this money and use it for investment purpose such as real estate management or hotel management .Dear, I am honourably seeking your assistance in the following ways:
(1) To provide a bank account into which this money would be
transferred to
(2) To serve as a guardian of this fund since I am only 22years.
(3) To make arrangement for me to come over to your
country to furthermy education and to secure a resident permit in yourcountry.Moreover, Dear, i am willing to offer you 25% of the total sum as compensation for your effort/ input after the successful transfer ofthis fund into your nominated account overseas. please mydearest love as i told you that i dont have my direct telephone number because of my present condition right now but i will try to borrow some money from my fellow refugee freinds to call you if i can be able to get your telephone contacts.
thanks
GOD WILL HELP YOU AS YOU HELP ME TODAY.

YOURS
LOVELLY

MORINE CHRISTIANA DICKSON



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