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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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Fraud email example:

From: "gilman_ossege3" <gilman_ossege@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 00:23:40 -1200
Subject: From Ossege

From: Barrister Gilman Ossege,
Rue 115, Medina
Guinea Conakry.

Dear,

I humbly wish to introduce myself as Barrister Gilman Ossege
from the republic of Guinea Conakry in Western part of
Africa. I am the CEO of Goldyard Investment WA.

I am contacting you through this medium because I know that
you are into Gold and diamond business. I have a client who
has a total of $350 Million United Sates Dollars only to
invest into any profitable business.

My client is from Africa and was formerly a top military
officer. He got this money while he was still in office, now
that he is retired and he cannot just deposit the money into
the bank or invest it without proper sanitation and
declaration of the source of the money.

I now contact you as a gold and diamond dealer to
Immediately arrange for a meeting with me and my client in
order for us to reach an agreement for the investment of
this fund. We propose to hand over the
total $350 Million USD to you upon your arrival in order to
commence in the business. We expect that you will use this
money to buy gold and diamonds from here in large quantity,
export them properly and then make the payment in the tone
of the total amount given to you into my client’s
designated bank account.My client will be interested in any
other profitable business you might think of.

Please take note that my client will not have any interest
in any profit made on the purchased goods[Gold & Diamond].
His interest is only on the sanitation and the safety of the
total fund and proper
lodgement of the fund into his designated bank account. He
has also mapped out 10% of the total amount involve as your
commission in this transaction.

Upon the receipt of your reply more information regarding
this transaction shall be given to you. We also wish to
inform you that immediate and urgent attention is highly
needed in this business.

I wish enough facts are given for you to access this
ransaction.

I look forward to hear from you as soon as possible

Yours Sincerely,
Barrister Gilman Ossege
Reply to[gilman_ossege@yahoo.co.uk]


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