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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: "Ede Anthony" <tedecbn101@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: edetony06qyahoo.com@vmx90.multikabel.net
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 21:14:07 +0100
Subject: from Ede Anthony

ATTENTION SIR
I know you will be surprise to read from me, but
please consider this as a request from a family in
dare need of assistance. First I must introduce myself, I
am Anthony Ede from Liberia,I am the first son and the
second child of the late Brigadier Louis Ede. I am
presently residing in georgetown barbados with my mother and two sisiters as political refugees.

I got your contact from a personal search for good people and on
behalf of my widowed mother Mrs. Susan Ede I decided
to solicit for your assistance to transfer the sum of
US$6 Million ( six Million
United States Dollars) inherited from my late
father into your personal or company’s account.Before
my fathers death he was a Brigadier in-charge of Arms
and Ammunition purchases for the Liberian Armed Forces.
In his "WILL" he specifically drew my attention to
this sum US$6 Million which he deposited in a safe
box of a private Security Company in switzerland.

IN FACT MY FATHER SAID IN HIS "WILL" AND I QUOTE:
"My beloved son, I wish to draw your attention to
the sum of US$ 6 Million ( six Million
United States Dollars) WHICH I
deposited in a box with the Security Company in
Switzerland. During the war I was
dedicated and committed to winning the war against the
rebels until I found out that the Senior Army Officers
and top Government Functionaries were busy helping
themselves with Government Funds and properties and
Sending them to foreign countries. Due to this, when I
and the former special adviser to the president were
assigned by the president ( Charles Taylor) to
purchase arms from Russia, we saw this as a
golden opportunity and diverted the money which we
shared and I got a total sum of US$ 6 Million.
In case of my absence on earth caused by death only,
you should solicit for a reliable foreign partner to
assist you to transfer this money out of swiss
for investment purpose deposited the money in your
name and it can be claimed by you alone with the
Deposit code. Your mother have all the documents.Take
good care of your mother and two sisters"

>From the above you will understand that the lives and
future of my family depends on this funds, as much I
will be very grateful if you can assist us. We are now
living in barbados as political Asylum seekers and
the financial laws of this country does not allow
asylum seekers certain financial rights to such huge
amount of money.In view of this, I cannot invest this
money in barbados, hence I am seeking you to
assist me transfer the money out of swiss for
investment purpose. For your efforts, I am prepared to
offer you 20% of the total fund, while 10% will aside
for local and international expense and 70% will be
kept by my family and me.

Finally, modalities on how the transfer will be done
will be conveyed to you once we have established trust
and confidence between ourselves. Please treat as very
urgent.

Best Regards,
tony Ede.



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