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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: eloise anderson <lawyer2taylors@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: lawyer2taylors2@yahoo.co.in
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 13:36:30 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Re: THANK YOU SIR.


Dear Sir,
Compliments of the day to you. i am very happy to receive your mail stating that you will assist me in this transaction to help the taylors family . I am sorry that i did not respond quickly to your reply but i was on a trip to have some urgent discussions with the taylors on this issue.
what i will assure you is that you cannot regret doing this transaction with me because i know of so many unscrupulous beings out there who negatively affect genuine help seekers like the taylors.i am presently in the united kingdom and soliciting for help to help the taylors with this transfer but will leave soon enough to meet the taylos because Mr Taylor has been moved to the Hague last two days..
I want you to know that i am just a lawyer to the taylors and my job is to solicit for a trustworthy individual to help the family.i have been in this profession for 35 years and i have also known the taylors for so long now.i am going to be paid by the taylors based on percentage basis at the end of the transaction if is goes down well,which i definetly know would happen succesfully.please i would want you to act of human sympathy to consider to help the taylors first before we can start jubilating with our own part of the shares of the funds.
You should be aware from the international media of the war crime charges levelled against my client wo is is presently under the us government custody and the the liberian government too.
I want to assure you that Mr Charles Taylor has not committed any of those charges .
what i need from you is honesty and sincerity to enable us conclude this transaction by next week without any hitches, the taylors want to leave their present location to where you are for investment and eventually relocating ,but they need a trusted individual because they have fallen to the wrong hands in the past who promised helping them and eventually ended up abscounding with someof their funds.The fund in question here is fifty million us dollar(50,000,000.00) which all the necessary documents to prove that this money is not for money laundry will be presented to you,which is why am a legal practitioner so to back up the transfer legally.i would also inform you that a meeting is been schedule by the taylors for you to come meet thm and also my presence will be there too to ascertain who you are.
Dear friend, before I continue, please I would like you to answer some of this question which we use for security check because the government of liberia as you know, have taking full control of mr taylors custody.
1.Age,
2.Occupation
3.A copy of your identity.
Please hope you keep this as confidential as ever so that the government would not confiscate this last funds and you can call me through 00447024066955.
Please reply to me t for further instructions.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Eloise Anderson




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