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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: =?iso-8859-1?q?mrs=20hussin=20mrs=20hussin?= <mrshussin@yahoo.fr>
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 08:27:32 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: GOOD DAY


J'ai une nouvelle adresse mailVous pouvez maintenant m'écrire à : mrshussin@yahoo.fr

Dear Partner


Due to the problem I have with my internet, I lost a lot of email contact of my client in the system because of email mix up in my computer Luckily for me, I extracted this email among those in the system which I feel is yours. It is a very difficult job before I could trace it. This is why I never wrote for a long time, I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting those funds transferred under

The cooperation of a new partner from Paraguay. Presently I’m in Paraguay for investment projects with my own share of the total sum. Meanwhile, I didn't forget your past efforts and attempts to assist me in transferring those funds, despite that it failed us some how. Last

Time ago I sent you the sum $1,000.000.00 as your compensation. My secretary mistakenly pay it to one Patrick Miller from Us, Who fake information’s and claimed the money and ran away with the money. This how I lost that big sum of amount. So keep it confidential because of America Gov.I doesn’t want them to know where I am. For my security, for they not to flash me over the internet. My Director will become aware of what is happening, so keep it confidential . Send him this informations.


NAME OF BANK .................

BANK ADDRESS..................

ACCOUNT NUMBER...............

BENEFICIARY NAME...............

ROUTING/SWIFT NUMBER............

TELEX NUMBER.................... ....................., Do not let him know anything about our deal please, If you contact him he will pay it to you any question from you .His name is Mr Jimbana Larry, immediately, I have instructed him not to ask on: jimbana@katamail.com

Ask him to send you the total sum $1,000.000.00 which i kept for your compensation for all the past efforts and attempts to assist me in this matter. I appreciated your efforts at that time very much. So feel free and get in touched with my secretary and instruct him where to pay the amount to you. Please let me know immediately you receive it, So that we can share the joy after all the suffer ness at that time. In this moment, I am very busy here because of the investment projects which me and the new partner are having at hand, finally, remember that I had forwarded all the instruction to the secretary on your behalf to receive that money, The area I, am, I drove for (4)hours before I could see commercial internet service, to check my email, I can only check it once in two weeks So feel free to get in touch with Mr Jimbana Larry , He will send the amount to you without any delay NOTE THE EMAIL AGAIN,

jimbana@katamail.com

Best regards,

- mrs hussin mrs hussin


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