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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: <gracead2006@yahoo.co.jp>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:34:55 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Personal Message

My name is Grace Adibe From Africa Sierra Leone, I am 22years old the only daughter of late Hon. Mr/Mrs Adibe, I live in orphanage house for temporal accomodation to accomplish my desire over my heritage consignment fund. 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 your help over this reality of my life and i will make an agreement with you to pay you any price you may request in return after you get me out of the whole mess.

Shortly, I have a heritage in my name with a fiduciary fund holder in Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire, My late father deposited this treasure box 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 Box call Consignment out of the deposit custody through the help of a reputable business man or my husband to be who is capable of handling business because the consignment Contained cash 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 seen you before but I believe, one has 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 is that I need assistance to
retrieve my consignment as the right beneficiary but there are some oustanding demurrage charges that is asked to be paid first before I will have access to this box and my personal intension is to transfer the consignment to your country for peace and foreign business esterblishment in your
country when we recover the fund deposited in it without the concept of my late fathers family who became my obstercle to any of my late fathers properties after his death.

Please we have many things to talk about or do together if you will love help me. I will give you all the proffs of this consignment if you promise me 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 and you only while 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.

Finally, if you have yahoo messenger we can also spend time to chat so that you will understand me more clearly.

With love and care

Miss Grace Adibe.




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