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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: anita gerba <anitalove_gerba@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 10:49:04 -0800 (PST)
Subject: darling please write to the bank for more inquiry


Hello my darling,
sorry for late reply
I thank you ones again for reaching me. I pray to be with you soon, and i will have more time to demonstrate my full real love and care to you. Thank for your mail, I see you as a very nice person whom i can lean upon for love and support for life; i see you as very responsible, competent and mature enough to assist me to direct my life to a positive direction in life. Please my dear, i am only soliciting for your kind assistance to me in that matter, so that i will be able to leave here completely and join you.I hope you will try to understand and assist me as well if you are really interested in me.

Please i have not told anyone except you about the existence of this money and i will like you to please keep it secret to other people because since it involves money, i feel all interest will be on it. Remember i trust you honey that is why i am giving you all this information!. I will be so please to speak with you and to hear your voice please, just call me at the church office +221 44 34 207 any time you wish at the correct time as i have given to you earlier and the Reverend Pastor will send for me immediately to answer your call his name is Rev Father Plysier Erwin,he is an European Missionary working here under the Catholic ; i have already told him about you , that you would be calling me as you did and he kindly agreed to assist me.

You can call the Reverend most preferably from 11am to 3pm London GMT, this is usually the time the church office is opened and i feel you will surely get the line on by this time, this country has the same time with London GMT, and you can calculate your time from this to know the best time to call me.
I have informed the bank about my plans to take and transfer this money and the only thing they told me is to look for a very responsible person , who will stand on my behalf as a trustee to this money due to my refugee status and the laws of this country. I have to use this chance to let you know about it , i have decided not to continue staying over here anymore, i would like to use this chance get you introduced to the bank as my partner and the person who will be standing on my behalf as regards to this money.
In this regards i will like you to contact the bank immediately with their contact information below;please tell them that you are my foreign partner and that you want to know the possibilities of assisting me transfer my $3.7 million dollars deposited by my late father of which i am the next of kin/beneficiary, to your account in your country.
The contact information of the bank is as follows:

BANQUE ISLAMIQUE DU SENEGAL:
RC : SN DKR A9413
Tel :+221 366 4 285.
Email b-islamique-senegal@myway.com
Email islamic-bank-senegal@myway.com
SIEGE SOCIAL :
Immeuble Fayçal
Rue Huart x Amadou A. Ndoye
Dakar Senegal

As i was informed, the Transfer General Manager is Mr Faahl Diop Mbake , by the time i contacted them on phone and email.
Please try and contact them now to confirm this and as well on how possible to transfer the 3.7 million USA dollars deposited by my late of which i am the next of kin to your account in your country.
My dear i am glad that God has brought you to see me out from this situation and i promise to be very grateful and will equally need you in every area of my life plus investing this money since i am still too young and inexperienced to comfortably manage my life for now. As i told you before, this camp is just like a prison and my prayers is to move out from here as soon as possible.

Please make sure that you contact the bank so that after the transfer you can send some money from that money for me to prepare my travelling documents to meet with you in your country.I feel i can make it to join you as soon as you are through with this transfer or you can come down to met me over here and see how you will assist me to join you.I don't think i will regret being with you in your country, i feel it's so better for me to be with you than to be over here, i have made my decision not to continue staying in Africa.
Honey, i hope you approach this issue as yours, because i am all yours and i want to be yours all my life; i so much trust you and i will like you to maintain the trust i have got in you.I will be waiting to hear from you soonest!.
Yours forever in love,anita
Please call me today or tomorrow,i want to hear your voice
anita


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