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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 Halimatou Ahmed" <halimatou22@yahoo.co.in> (may be fake)
Reply-To: halimatou22@katamail.com
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 00:50:38 +0000
Subject: Attn: Investment Offer.


>From Miss Halimatou Ahmed
Direct cell phone:002215116673
Dakar-Senegal
West-Africa.


Dear Sir/Madam,

Good day and how are you today? I hope fine. I know that we have never met in
person, but permit me to inform you of my desires. I am a younger girl of
22years from Freetown, the capital city of Sierra Leone. My mother died when I
was still baby during the war, after that my father took me to Senegal where
he have gold’s and diamonds sale’s shop in Dakar Senegal and I was staying
with my daddy furthering my educations until his late.

Now that my father is death, i am the only person left in the family and the
parson who will inherit his late father’s properties as the only daughter of
the family, so my late father made me the next of kin of his fund, the sum of
$ 15,000,000:00 us dollars deposited with one of the Senegalese firm banking
and I have all the deposit covering documents of the said fund with me, as am
talking to you now.

I needed your assistance and your willingness to assist me for the investment
of the total fund on my behalf there in your country while I further my
educations and will be able to join you in the business which the total will
be invested on my behalf, once I finish and complete my educations there in
your country.

However, I have gone to the firm banking here, regarding the deposit of which
there are aware of me been the next kin of the total fund and the inheritance
of the fund, so I was informed by the bank foreign remittance director whom
was also my late father friend of which he inform me to look for any foreign
partner of my choice from any country overseas to nominate, so that the parson
would stand on my behalf as my foreign investment partner from overseas to
receive the total fund ($15,000,000:00USD) and invest it on my behalf .

I am now contacting you because of this matter and want you to stand and
receive the fund on my behalf as am going to nominate you with the firm
banking here as my appointed foreign partner receiver of the said fund on my
behalf for my investment purposed in your country and to give me good
educations there as soon as I arrive to stay with your family’s.

I have decided and made up my mine to offer you the 35% of the total funds,
once the fund is transferred and confirmed into your bank account which you
will provide for the transfer while the remaining 65% of the total fund left
for me will be invested in good and legitimate business of your choice on my
behalf until I finish my educations there in your country.

Please reply urgently to my email proposal, to enable me furnish you with all
the documents, so that you can further the transfer processing of the fund
with the firm banking here on my behalf. Reply urgently as soon as possible to
my alternative email: halimatou@katamail.com , You can call me direct for more
details, on my cell phone: { 00221 5116673.}

Yours faithfully,

Miss Halimatou Ahmed.



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