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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: Ami AHMED <ami_a202@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 09:56:03 -0800 (PST)
Subject: AMI AHMED


Dear,

I am Miss Ami Ahmed 20 yrs old daughter to late Mr Ahmed Yao born nationals from republic of Guniea Bissau,but i am temporary residing in republic of Ivory Coast here in Africa for safety of my life.

After the death of my parents,we are two children ,but the younger one was killed along with my parents,while i was away schooling.

As you requested, I am not doing nothing,rather hiding till i can get the inheritance my late father told me where it was kept before he was murdered out from this unsafe place to your country.

I want you to liase with the Finance House In here where my father made the deposit with,as my guardian and as my family associates whom i appoint to assit me to claim the money $8.5 Millon Dollar into his account outside Africa. And once i submit the informations about you to them,they will write you a mail if actually the informations i gave to them is correct from you ,to reconfirm the informatiosn by you responding to them.

After writing you,and the information i earlier submitted is same as the one you will send to them,this will allow them to ask you to apply for the claim as my guardian ,so that they will start proceeding to make a way for the transfer,because they will change the whole of my late fathers informations to your informations coupled with letter of authority that i will write to them for release to you and latter you send some money to me from the money the bank will transfer to your account to enable me come over to your country.

Trusting you is human,and not trusting you is human as well,but ends up in faith,we are strangers because we have not met nor seen each other;but one thing or the others will surely bring two strangers together,the world is too complex.

my chosen you is by devine and i never chosed you to enter into any problem,rather to solve my problem.please.

You are a god fearing person if i should contact you,and please remember that whoever that is in pains and needs help can do any positive thing to have a solution to his or her difficulty period.

Anyway,please save my soul,If actually you will keep this to your self,i want you to remember that this money is not ill gotten by my late father,rather he was a God fearing business man,he sent me to school inorder to be a prominent person on earth,which every parents will like to see his or her child come to be,but due to the untimely death and the greediness of our leaders coupled with the war made me to be an orphan.Thats life,some people use other peoples situations to capitalised on there selfish goals,i am not that type.

Please,If its from your heart to solve and bring me out from this war torned country ,please do that and you will not regret,i promise you.I prayed,and i am not misled by my contacting you,i am confiding in you honestly to fulfil my fathers dream in me and i myself.

Believe me and you we will laugh at the end,I know its not easy to believe a stranger like me ,but take a giant step and see the green grass growing between two of us,without cheating and betrayal anddont file to send you full information to me to submit to the Finance House here immediately for the transfer to your account.

Thanks and greetings to your family

Hoping to hear from you soonest,

Ami





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