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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: Mrs Dorris williams Niyonzima <dorriswill@yahoo.co.in>
Reply-To: dorriswills@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 18:26:25 +0000
Subject: From Mrs Dorris


Dear Friend,

with due respect i am asking you to guarrant me an audience for sake of my ugly condition .i must say that i am Sorry at this perceived confusion or stress as you may have receiving this letter, since we have not known or met ourselves previously. Despite that reason, please save me from this urgly situation as I hope that this letter will not constitute an embarrassment to you.

I decided to contact you because of the urgency of my situation here and with this, let me introduce myself. I am Mrs. Dorris williams Niyonzima (35 yrs old.), The wife of Late deputy National Assembly Hon Etienne Niyonzima, who died during the Rwanda Civil disturbance.

I am constrained to contact you because of the maltreatment I received from my husband brothers. They planned to take away all my late husband treasury and properties away from me since the unexpected death of my husband.

Meanwhile I wanted to escape but they conspired together and stole my international passport and other valuable travelling documents. But luckly for me they did not discover where I hide my husband documents file where important documents are kept, So I decided to contact you
confidentially.

They have even closed all my husband bank accounts just to put me into suffery and starvation. Now I urgently need an assistance of a reputable and trustworthy Foreigner like you to help me receive and subsequently invest on my behalf the sum of US$ 4..000.000(FOUR MILLION DOLLARS), which my husband kept in a vault in Dakar-Senegal before his death.

It therefore became very necessary and urgent that somebody in your foreign position should render a helping hand to safe-guard this fund for me in safe haven over there until my arrival in your country. It is my intention to compensate you with 20% of the total money for your
assistance while 10% will be keptaside for any miscellaneous expenses incurred by both of us and balance kept for any profitable investment anywhere in overseas as you may advice me.

Today I'am in Senegal with my only son to claim this money from the fidiuary firm but because we are refugee they firm refused us and adviced us to look for someone who can stand for us because the law of senegal forbid any refugee from anything monitary issues and I have all the
relevant Documents backing this money now in Senegal.

please your urgent assistance is needed and as soon as this money comes in your position you will look for a profitable business which we will invest this money into. although contacted you based on your capability and knowledge in international business.

I shall appreciate an urgent message indicating your ability and willingness to handle this transaction sincerely and bear it in mind that this transaction will only take 12days to finalise since i am with all the papers that cover this money.

Thanking you in advance for your understanding and co-operation.
Yours Sincerely,
Mrs. Dorris

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