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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 about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: Roland Musere <rolandmus101@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: rol50m@sify.com
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 01:22:44 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Reply


Dear Sir,

My name is Dr.Roland Musere. I hail from the Federal republic of Ghana.
I am the Director of Silver Global Security & Finance
Services
Limited, Ghana..
I got the information concerning you from the
Internet
and after due consideration, I decided to contact you
believing that by the Grace of God, you will not
disappoint
me over this transaction. I have been working with
this company for over sixteen years. Within this
period, I
have watched with meticulous precision how African
Heads of
State and Government functionaries
have been using Silver Global Security & Finance Ltd
to
move sums
of money (USD, Pounds Sterling, French Francs) (cash)
to
their foreign partners. They bring in these
consignments of
cash and secretly declare the contents as jewelries,
gold,
diamonds, precious stones, family treasures, and
documents
etc. Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire (dead), Gen. Sanni
Abacha of
Nigeria (dead), Fode Sankoy of Sierra Leone, Sabimbi
the
Late President of Angola, Felix Houphet Boigny of Cote
d"Ivoire (dead)Charles Taylor,Former President of
Liberia
website:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2963086.stm,
Kanan Bedie of Cote d"Ivoire (Abidjan) etc. All
these
people have many consignments deposited with my
office.
Their foreign partners, friends and
relatives are claiming most of these consignments. A
lot of
them
are lying here unclaimed for as much as three years.
Nobody
will ever come for them because in most cases, the
Certificate of Deposit are never available to
anybody except the depositors or me since most of them
are dead. I have through the instrumentality of Global
Security &
Finance re-deposited all these unclaimed and
overstayed consignment into the Vault Facility of a
reputable Security Company in EUROPE. Since the
inception of the year 2000, our company's management
has
changed
the procedure of claims of consignment. As soon as you
are
able to produce the secret information as contained in
the
secret file of any consignment, it will be released to
you upon demand. I have finalized every arrangement
for
you to claim consignment No. 1401, 1402 containing
$20.5
Million.
I will supply you with all the information and
documents that will facilitate your easy claim of the
consignment.
Alternatively,you can forward your Bank
information to
me if it is not convenient for you to travel, such
that I
can in turn forward it to the Security/Finance House
in
Europe for onward remmittance of the said sum into
your
account.
Upon your positive reply of this letter, I will
furnish you with further details and information
regarding
the
modus operandi for the execution of the transaction.
This
business is risk free as I have taken necessary
preventive
measures. (The mode of sharing will be 50-50), you can
reach me by email and I will direct you on what to do
and also l like you to furnish me with your full name
and
your confidential phone and fax number(s). Upon your
positive consideration and reply of this letter, I
shall
give you a confidential telephone number with which we
can
discuss the execution of the business.
Expedite action is needed.
Yours faithfully,
Dr.Roland Musere.
Director of Silver Global Security & Finance Services
LTD,Ghana



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