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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: "tofar mustapher" <tofarmustapher10@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: tofarmustapher@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 07:10:39 +0000
Subject: PLEASE HELP MY FAMILY (A CRY FOR HELP)

STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL.
FROM:MR TOFAR MUSTAPHER.
Email:tofarmustapher10@hotmail.com



STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL

Dear


Compliments of the day to you and your family.I am writing to you with much
respect and honor to this letter, which must remain private and
confidential. I know my proposal will come to you as a surprise since you do
not precisely know me. Anyway, my mind accepted you and I believe that this
proposal will bring mutual benefit for both of us.

Let me use this medium to introduce myself to you, I am Mr Tofar Mustapher
, the Son of Alhaji Usman Mustapher , the former chairman of Diamond
National Mining Co-operation and once the Director of Works and Housing
before his untimely death. My Father associated himself with coup plotters
that ousted the government of Ahmed Tijan Kabbah on the 25th of May 1997 and
was executed including ten (10) others.


As a result of his death and uncontrollable war in my country, Sierra Leone,
my mother and I decided to seek asylum in South Africa where my Father had
deposited US31.5m (THIRTY ONE Million Five Hundred Thousand United States
Dollars) for us. We now want to use this money for investment in your
country since we do not have anybody to assist us. Therefore, I am asking
for your urgent assistance to forward this money into your country using
very confidential and reliable means in which I will offer you 40% of the
total amount for your king assistance.

However, This money is safely kept in a Security Company before my father
death under disguise as precious items and nobody has any slight knowledge
of what is inside the box deposited with the Security Company. In other
words, there is no risk involved and so not hesitate to ask questions where
necessary. All the documents covering the deposition of the money with the
Security Company are intact with me . For more information, please contact
me on 27-73-307-22-72 or through Email (tofarmustapher10@hotmail.com) to
provide you with detailed information on how the transfer of this fund can
made to your country upon acceptance. Please your private phone and fax
numbers will be mostly needed for easy and confidential communication.

I look forward to hearing from you immediately you receive this mail. Thanks
and may God almighty bless you.

Best regards,

Mr Tofar Mustapher.

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