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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: "JULLIET GEORGE" <juliet_123py@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: juliet_1.23py@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 13:02:12 +0000
Subject: I NEED UR HELP PLEASE IT'S VERY HOT WITH ME HERE PLEASE HELP ME
OU?MY BODY IS 4 YOU 4 ALL MY LIFE.

Hello Dera uncle ,
how are you today, l hope you are fine. My day is very boring over here in Dakar Senegal. In this camp we find it hard to go out because we are not allowed to do so, its just like one staying in the prison and l hope by God's grace l will come out this soon. I don't have any relatives now that i can go to, all my relatives ran away in the middle of the war the only person i have now is Rev. Thomas Ba who is the Reverend pastor of the (Christ the king Churches) here in the camp he has been very good to me since l came to this camp, but meanwhile, l am not living with him rather l live in the women's hostel because the camp have two hostels one for men the other for women. The Pastor's Tel number is (00221-591-16-60) if you call, tell him that you want to speak with me he will send for me in the hostel.
As a refugee, i don't have any right or privilege to any thing pertaining money or whatever because it is against the law of this country. I want to go back to my studies because i only attended my first year before the tragic incident that lead to my being in this situation now took place. Honey, please l would like you to know that l have my late father's statement of account and death certificate here with me which l will like to send to you to assist me,because when he was alive he deposited some amount of money in the Bank which he used my name as the next of kin. The amount in question is $3.8(Three Million Eight Hundred Thousand US Dollars).
So l will like you to assist me transfer this money to your account and from it you will send some money for me to get my traveling documents and air ticket to come over to meet with you. I can't withdraw the money my self due to my refugee statues here in this country which does not permit me to, rather the money can't be transferred in Senegal where i am in refugee statues. I want you to send me your contact information's such as your
Names ........................................
Age .........................................
Address ........................................
Telephone ........................................
Bank Info ........................................
I have got in touch with the bank and made them to know about my plans to withdraw this money, l also got them aware of the death of my father and they have acknowledged it with all there confirmation. However, they advise me to get in touch with a very responsible person who will stand on my behalf and my trustee as regards to this money since l am presently of refugee status over here and wouldn't be permitted to handle this amount of money, they also let me know about the bond which they signed with my father that they money will be handled to me in bulk amount which means that l should decide on if l should continue with the bank or not.I can only call u on telephone if u consider ur mind about me.
I just have to let you know about this so that you can assist me to be my trustee on this money. like l said l want you to call me because l have alto to tell you.l kept this secret to people in the camp here the only person that knows about it is the Reverend because he is like a father to me. Have a nice time and think about me. my dear, this is the email address of the Reverend (reverend_thms@yahoo.com <http://us.f591.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=reverend_thms@yahoo.com>). l hope to hear from you soonest. l love you.
Yours for ever in love. Miss julliet


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