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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: musungu lima <musungulima1@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2006 01:35:00 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: EMERGENCY


Dear Good Friend.

I pray God this message reaches you in wonderful
spirit.I am making this contact with you based on
trust and confidence irrespective of the fact that we
have not met before and because of the nature of the
situation I found myself, I am Musungu Lima the son
of late former Minister Of Mines and Natural Resource
during the time of Major Koromah,the former Military
Headof State of the Republic of Sierra Leone,who was
massacred by President Tinjani Kabbah force in their
struggle toreinstate him back topower. My brother and
I are refugee here in Accra,Ghana since the death of
our father, because of the condition of his death.

Before the death of my father some months ago he
disclosed to me some money he had deposited in my name
in a neighboring country inWest-Africa. The total
amount of the money is $32M, US dollars and 42 kilos
of Gold all in a security vault in the West Africa
neighboring country, The document regarding this
consignment was handed over to me by my father before
his death, I carefully searched and found the security
Companywhere I Confirmed that the consignment were
deposited for safe Keeping in their security vaultin
the neighboring Country.

The content were deposited as a family
valuable,byVirtue of right as the son of my late
father, the Security Company has accepted to release
the connsignment factually. I am seeking your
assistance because my father has declared the record
with the security company stating that his foreign
partner form oversea shall be authorized person to
make claim on this consignment because of his position
government on which nO name was given by my father as
his foreignpartner. To this effect, I request to make
the beneficiary ofHis consignment in your name as
foreign partner to Claim this consignment.

For your assistance, room is Open for negotiations.
This is a risk free transaction As my father
deposited this valuable as a personal Belonging. In
this situation every process to completely move This
valuable may not exceed (3) working days,if your
co-operation to assist is sort. I shall be very
Grateful to hear from you, all documents concerning
This are intact with me, please kindly reach me as
Soon as possible trough my
email:musungulima2@yahoo.com
TEL +233 27 67 88 305

Best Regards,
Musungu Lima
Please all dealing should be confidential


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