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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!

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Fraud email example:

From: mark donald <macdon35w@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 06:21:23 +0100 (BST)
Subject: urgent and confidential.


dear friend.
i wish to introduce myself as mr. Mack Donakd name here. i work as a staff with the kotoka international here in ghana accra west africa. am contacting you in the view of the fact that we might be of immense assistance to each other since we shall defineltely develop very good and solid business relatioship through this contact. i work here at the airport as chief inpection officer. and am contacting you in view of a consigment that has been in our coustody for almost 8months now the consignment was suppose to be dispatch to china according to our record here. but unfortunetely the consignment has been held here due to lack of proper arrangement by the benefactor whereby they make arrangement outside the official way which has cost the lost and mishandling of so many consigment here in africa. some of the consigment are even confiscated and others maybe exchanged and so
many difficulties that are been encounter due to mis-appriopriate arrangement. my aim of contacting you is due to the consignment that has been in our ware-house here in the airport. it was deposited by the family of late foday sankoh of sirre-leone. the consigment was held here because of illegal attempt by some unofficial persons claiming to be working with the international diplomatic mission. it was after awhile that the eldest son who happen to be the next of kin for the consignment revealed to me the misery behind the deposited consignment. according to our record here the consignment is containing antiques and family valuables. which is to the best of our official knowledge. the next of kin revealed to me that the consigment is containing 54million u.s dollar. raw cash that was siphoned by the late father general foday sankoh. and they intended taking the consigment to a old friend of thier father in
china. and that they want my help to make all the necessary arrangement for them to take the consigment out of africa. thier request has been in my line of duty here as the chief inspection officer i can handle such transaction without any form of hindrance. but the problem we have here is that i could,nt quarantee a sucessful deliverey to china due to the fact that i don,t have good connection for that destination but any deliverey to europe america australia and even most places in asia i can quarantee without a stress or hindrance of any form i have made quite sucessful deliverey in the past but most times the beneficary over there that recived the consigment turns out to be unreliable thereby breaking trust here. am now contacting you due to the fact that the information i gathered about you prove to me that you could be realistic. having learnt that you,ve encounter some mishap before due to inproper arrangement and
myself knowing that i can make an excellent arrangement that we deliver the consignment to u without any form of halt or stress if you are willing to work with me and follow my instructions. presently the next of kin for the consignment has ask me to make a reliable arrangement for them due to the bad finacial state of the family they don,t want to take any risk like so many people do hence with my position here i am in the right line to make everything work perfectly if only you will prove your reliability to me when you recieve the consigment. am been giving the task by the next of kin to make arrangement for them wherever i know i can perfectly deliver. hence am contacting you cos your country happens to be a very good ground for me . the next of kin mr gilbert sankoh. has said he is willing to discuss a reliable percentage with you upon your positive response i belive after discusing with him he will enlighten you what form of role
they really want you to play when the fund get to you. i also we send you prove of the deposit here from the diplomatic ware-house to you. to enable us work in transperacy. i want to use this medium to implore you to keep this discussion strictly and absoulutely confidecial because it can cause me my office and a jail term possibly i believe we will not get to that i want you to forget about any form of mis-apprioprate arrangement of the past because this is your time to reap . i await your response or you can prefarebly reach me on this secured Email macdon35w@yahoo.co.uk
the name is Mr Mack Donakd thanks

sincerly. francis corona


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