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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: david atta <david2003atta@yahoo.ca>
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 03:32:44 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Dearest one.


Dearest one ,
I will be glad if you honor my mail and reply to it with kind desire to assist me, What a beautiful thing to find you in my life and send you this mail with a willing heart and strong desire to be your partnership forever. My aim of sending this mail to you is to introduce you in my life desire which i was inherite from my beloved parents after the death, it is true that we have never meet once in this life but relationship begin one day and if you can be sincere with me, to achieve what fate has in stock for me, I will forever be your future partner if it is the wish of Amightyt God either for better or worse.

I am a good humble Boy and i will begin introducing myself to you, but i won't want you to find this message so quick or too sudden, it's is my case that demand the agency and i will need your kindness attention over it.
My name is David Atta From Africa Sierra Leone, I am 20years old the only son of late Mr/Mrs Williams Atta, I live in orphanage house for temporal accomodation to accomplish my desire over my heritage consignment/find. I am confiding this matter to you without any doubt and i will need your sincere co-operation attain this opportunity for our future benefit. Without any doubt or heart breaking, I want you to promise me you will help over this reality of my life and i will make an agreement with you to meet you in your country if you which to assist me I will be glade if you will took me out of the whole mess which i 'm pasing through in this country.
Shortly, I have a heritage in my name with a security company in Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire, My late father deposited this consignment content fund as family valuable materials and he ask me not to declare the content of this box to anybody i do not trust including the security company people untill i retrieve the fund containts out of the security company deposit custody through the help of a reputable business man who is capable of handling business because the consignment Contained cash of dollars and the total amount in the Box is; Four point Five Million US Dollars (4.500,000.00) cash which was recover from his business with some France Cocoa machant and Investors when he sold a large hectres of Cocoa farm to them.
Though, I have not been seen you before but I believe, one as to risk confiding to succeed sometimes in life. The death of my late father gave my mother intensive illness that paralyzed both hands and her legs until last year she was also dead. But my problem now is that I need assistance to retrieve my inheritage to the right beneficiary but there are some oustanding demurrage charges that is asked to be paid first before i will have access to this consignment contents fund and my personal intension is to transfer the consignment to your country for peace and establish it with a foreign business in your country when we recover the fund deposited in the security company then will can open account with your name and transfer it with immediate transfer to your account in your country then we can come over for the investing of the fund altogether.But the area you will help me is to keep this transaction within you, because my late fathers family is still alifed I will
not like who will became my obstercle to any of my late fathers properties after we have retrieval of the consignment.
Please we have many things to talk about on phone if you send your number were to reach you for oraly discussion
I will give you all the prove of this consignment if you promise me with your full support with sincere heart and that you will take care of me when i arrive into your country.

I will be more grateful if you can keep this matter confidential between me.
I will be waiting to receive your kind response with your telephone , fax and full address if you will help me with your willing heart.
With love and care
David Atta.



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