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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.Sarah=20Montgomery?=" <sssmont100200@yahoo.com.mx>
Reply-To: sssmont1975@katamail.com
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 06:36:26 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Thanks and stay blessed.


¡Tengo nueva dirección de correo!Ahora puedes escribirme a: sssmont100200@yahoo.com.mx

Good day,

I strongly apologise for sending you this

business proposal by email,due to the urgencey attach

and from the information I gathered assured me your

being reliable,trust worthy and confident to

accommodate my business interest.

Am Sarah Montgomery widow to late H .B Montgomery

of Sierra-Leone one of the formal director general in

charge of the National sales of diamonds(DIAMOND

RESERVE).Please I don't know any other fast medium I

can use in reaching out that why I chose to write you

this my letter by emailing you personally.And I will

like you to take this my letter with kind interest so

we can work with one understanding regards to my

preposal to you, so you can stand for me and my step

son as the needed nominated foreign investor/manager.

From the information reaching Me the management of

an agent security company that have all necessary

information to my late husband consignments containing

his funds that was relocated to a diplomatic warehouse

in Europe safe and secured keeping because of the

September 11 bombing of New York city. As for today

they have agreed to released the funds on the

condition that WE present to them our own trusted

nominated foreign investor manager out side Africa for

security reason.

The amount involved that is now secretly secured

into consignments in the security company Deposit

house vault for safe keeping is USD$15.2

million.(fifteen point two million united states

dollars)all in liquid cash.And regards the source of

the funds back home in Sierra-Leone I will be able to

tell you when I did receive your good respond

regarding this issue.

Please I don't know how to explain the situation to

you better than this now.What We feel if you will be

able to work thing out with us,I will then forwards to

you useful information and documents regards the said

funds presently in the deposit house vault for safe

keeping and We work out a percentage that will be of

your fair share of the total sum for standing for us

and coming down to Cotonou or Europe as the nominated

foreign investor manager.

Please your positive reply will be highly

appreciative on receipt of this mail and you can reach

me or my step son Dafe on this phone

No:00229-98-82-03.

Expecting your mail.

Thanks and stay blessed,

Sarah Montgomery.

- Mrs.Sarah Montgomery


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