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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: "shirley gbujama" <shirleygbujama06@sympatico.ca>
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 10:34:15 +0000
Subject: My greetings to you.

My greetings to you.

With warm heart, I offer my friendship, greetings, and I hope this email
reaches you in good faith.

However, strange or surprising this contact might seem to you as we have not
met personally or had any dealings in the past. I humbly ask that you take
due consideration of its importance and the immense benefit it will be to
both of us.

After careful consideration with my children, we resolved to contact you for
your most needed assistance in this manner. I duly apologize for intruding
in your privacy, if this contact is not acceptable to you, as I make this
proposal, please kindly disregard it.

Firstly, I wish to introduce myself properly to you. My name is Mrs. Shirley
Yema Gbujama, a mother of three children and the former Minister of Social
Welfare, Gender and Children Affairs in my country Sierra-leone.

I will now give you a general view of the situation when I was sworn in as a
Minister of Social Welfare, Gender and Children Affairs in 1996, my late
husband Anthony Gbujama, is also a very successful diamonds Businessman and
was awarded several contracts in my ministry and had direct dealings with
foreign investors in this field.

Due to my political status, I was not involved in my husband's business
which was very vast and successful. My beloved husband died whilst on an
official trip to one of his project sites, where they were attacked by
rebels and killed and their corpse were never found.

He secretly deposited two trunk boxes with a security company in The
Netherlands stocked with money valued at (US$55.7 Million USD).This money
was generated from cash payments from his business associates in the diamond
trade.

I have decided to have this funds invested by buying hotels and houses or if
possible company in abroad with your assistance, as I have no other means to
invest this funds without attracting my governments since no member of my
family can hold such a huge amount of money in our name due to my political
status, hence we sincerely propose to you to render us your most needed
assistance in this regard.

On hearing from you, I will make every arrangement to workout modality on
how best you can receive this funds in your country for the onward
purchasing of the properties stated but before that you must have the Prices
at hand.

Due to my sensitive position in the government now, it is not safe to
communicate with me via phone or fax, but by email ONLY. This is why I have
communicated you by email, and I would appreciate us to keep this way for
the afety of this transaction, anyway I will instruct my first son to
travel down to The Netherlands, so that he can open communication with you.

Finally, you may view my profile on the following link:-

http://www.statehouse-sl.org/sygbujama.html

I want immediate confirmation of your interest via my Personal email as
given: shirleygbujama67@netscape.net


Accept my sincere regards,

Mrs. Shirley Yema Gbujama.


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