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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: "Miss Linda Camara" <linda_camara11@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Reply-To: linda_camara12@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 15:04:55 +0000
Subject: From Miss Linda Camara

Dear Sir,
I am Ms Linda Camara a 25 years old girl from Ivorycoast daughter to late Lieutenant Col Ahmed Camara , Director of External Intelligence at the Directorate of Military Intelligence (DMI) Ivorycoast who was murdered during the problem in Ivorycoast with my only sister by his bosom Friend Mr Mbundu a Liberian businessman based in Guinea-Bissau when they seek refugee in his house.We the family members knew that Mr.Mbundu plotted my father's death because he accused my late father of cheating him out of a Diamond deal.
My mother was murdered after two weeks of the burial of my father by unknown person ,It was this reason our Family Lawyer advised me to leave the country for my safety so as to avoid any harmful or plot to kill me also by the ruthless people,i escaped to dakar senegal where i am secretly seeking assylum without anyone knowing my whereabout because after the death of my father my uncle started to prosecuteme over my father's properties which he later snatched from me under threating and eventual death of my mother and there is nothing I can do than to run for my dear life which is very important to me and followed the advice of our family lawyer.
I am in critical condition to be under assylum with fears and sleepless nights and to compare with senegal where things are very hard everything is highly expensive and can not afford anything in a condition like this.There is nothing i can do now because i can not decide to go into prostitution that is over my dead body.The the only hope and source of my happiness at this times is that my father left the sum of (US 6.5 Million dollars) in a bank in abroad some years ago by him and he made me the sole beneficiary which I am the only person that is aware because my father loves me very much that was why he gave me every information about that money through our faithful lawyer.
I am now asking you to stand on my behalf to stand as my partner and in time of the claim and investment as well. I have made up my mind to offer you 20% of the total money while the remaining will go into a productive investment. As I have mention earlier I will make the procedure to this issue to be well known to you.
I have spoken with the Bank in abroad and they have made it cleared to me that i should make available for them the bank account which i would want to have the fund to be transferred and that is why i have decided to let you know and be able to have more trust and confidence in you to assist me with an account which i would provide for the bank and also promise me that you would take care of this fund for me until i arrive in your place.
Please,bear it in mind that these proposal is not under compulsion at all and please if you are not interested to assist me,just kindly disregard all the information about the proposal and God will bless you as you do so but if you intend to assist me,please i would prefer you to take this proposal of mine as a personal consumption and must be kept confidential between two of us.
I wait in earnest to receive a response from you.
Sincerely,
Linda.


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