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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: sergioricardo@collegeclub.com
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 20:33:00 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: FROM MR.SERGIO RICARDO B. MORAES


FROM SERGIO RICARDO B. MORAES
SÃO PAULO - SP.
BRAZIL.

Dearest Friend.

My Name is Mr Sergio Ricardo Moraes and i am a Brazilian by
nationality and i was born deaf and i am not well educated due to my hard of hearing but i can read and write english a bit .i am contacting you base on your informations i got from your country directory through the internet.

i am Contacting you base on how urgent i need your honest and humble
assistances which i knew will benefit both of us if it can be kept with
outmost secrecy and confidencial from my late father's wife and her
brothers,whom has taken over my late father's business and properties
after his death last year,presently i am under dureces and i cannot be
given access to my late father's wealth just because i have no
relatives or friends to confide on.

l lost my father and my only sister early this year in a car accident
which i was the only survival in the car accident but i was paralize
and i cannot walk except with wheel chair, (due to the car accident
investigation i later found out that it was my late father's business
associates and his wife that masterminded it) hence why my late
father's wife and her relatives has taken over my late father's assets.
MY late father's problem started last Year,when my father did a drug
business worth US$6.9 million with his business assoicates including my
father's wife elder brother and been my father was the financier of the
deal he was entle to 60% that was their agreement at first.

But after the business has suceeded they change their mind demanding for 80% and my father 20% which made my father made security of the fund by keeping it in a silver metalic trunk box and transfer it from the shore of south america to africa through a secret arrangement as a family valubles with the help of a diplomatic and finance company,This means that the Diplomatic company does not know the content of this box that was shipped from my country Brazil to their company in africa under a diplomatic coverage, for my father declared the contents of the trunk box to the company were it was deposited as his company and business vital documents.
I am seeking for your assistances to help me visit the company in africa with the document of deposit covering the trunk box which i will send to you and my identification including a letter of introduction to enable you secure for the release of the trunk box from the Diplomatic company and deposit the fund into your bank account before you will now visit my country and secure for my release and assist me in entering your country for re-settlement and to enable us invest the fund there together.

All legal proofs and details of this fund will be forward to you as soonest you assure me your sincern and confidencial assurances of handling this project.
Thanks.
SERGIO RICARDO B. MORAES
SÃO PAULO - SP.
BRAZIL.




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