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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: "MR ARMED COMBO" <armedco1@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: armedcombo1@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 11:11:33 +0100
Subject: Mr Armed Combo

Dear Sir,

I am Comrade Armed COMBO one time veteran of the
Liberia Peace Movement,and also a first cousin to the
deposed President of Liberia, Charles Taylor,who is
now on trial for crimes against humanity for his involvement
in the sierraleonian crisis.

At a certain point
during the reign of my cousin,Charles Taylor.I was
incharge of all Diamod operations coming from
Angola,Sierra Leone,etc.Then Charles Taylor enjoyed
the patronage of the rebels controlling parts of
these countries,as tonnes of uncut diamond were
shipped to him,and he inturn through me sold these
diamonds to foreigners, and used the proceeds to buy
arms for the rebels in these countries,and a large
chunk of this money was for the enrichment of the
rebel leaders.Literally speaking he gave cover to the
rebel Leaders.This operation was code named : Conflict
Diamond.I cordinated the entire Diamond trade in the
sub region and this ran into hundreds of Million of
Dollars.

While carrying out this operation I was able to divert
the sum of 6.5million usd dollars for my personal benefit,and
this is contained in 1 trunk boxes and deposited as
artifacts in a finance bank in Europe.This is
only known to you and me and I hope you will keep this
confidential.

Now that Charles Taylor is no more in Power I thought
it wise to move the money out from the bank in europe to any personal account for investment purposes .Now I am contacting you
seeking your assistance to help me in transfering this
money to your country and personal account.All you need do is to make
necesary arrangement and contact the concerned bank whose contacts details will be made known to you later.
Contact me on ths email above.The time is ripe
and the time is now.

Best Regards,



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