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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: "Mss Rolande" <rolande101@excite.com>
Reply-To: rrdouble1@hotmail.com
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 11:29:01 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: From Ms Rolande










From Ms RolandeConakary - Guinea.

I pray this finds you well and reaches you in wonderful spirit. I am making this contact with you based on trust and confidence even though we have not met before and because of the nature of the situation I found myself. I had taken pains to find your contact through personal endeavors and i apologise for this informal way of contacting you which I believe would be most effective concerning the message I intend to bring to your notice. It is imperative that I adopt this means of communication to safeguard interests and guarantee that confidentiality and secrecy will not be compromised.

I am Rolande Hussianna, 28 female and single. I am originally from Liberia but presently in Conakary - Guinea. There is an information I would like you to keep very private and confidential. I once dated and was a mistress to the former Liberian president Charles Taylor who has now been indicted for war crimes and currently standing trial at war crimes tribunal in the Hague. Sometime in August of 2003, he {Charles Taylor} was forced to step down as the president of Liberia and went on exile. But just before he went on exile, he has some funds kept in my care and under my name in trust for him so that the funds will not be traced to him as he was already been accused then by the international community of benefitting from the illegal minning and smuggling of diamond from neighbouring Sierra Leone. We then both agreed and arranged to have the funds deposited in my name on escrow with a security company just a few months before he went on exile. As you may have been aware,
Charles Taylor is currently in detention awaiting trials at the war crimes tribunal in the Hague - Netherland.

The funds in question is US$8,000,000.00 {Eight milllion US Dollars} and they are presently in the custody of Deap Capital Management &amp; Trust Plc. Even though the funds as i said were deposited in my name in trust for him, but i may not be able to make direct withdrawal of this fund, because a clause was added during the time of the deposit that the beneficiary of the fund is a Foriegn Bussiness Partner who may and will be coming forward to claim the funds in due course and at anytime. But the document of the deposits {Proof of deposit} is with me.

I am abit confused right now as to what to do with the funds since im the only one who knows about them, i therefore believe the time is right for me to make this move to relocate the funds from their present location through a third party and someone that i can trust. I am therefore asking for your assistance to help me claim and retrieve the funds from the security company as the Nominee Beneficiary and have same transfered to your place in your name. Then i will also relocate to join you and then we can both share and invest the funds together in a joint business. Can you help? If you are capable of assisting me in realising this transaction and can handle and manage funds/transaction of this magnitude, email me back for more details. I am prepared to offer you reasonable commission of 30% and another 2% to be earmarked for expenses as will be agreed upon between you and me. If you are interested, and can maintain the very high confidentiality and secrecy that this
transaction entails, please e-mail me back for more clearification.

Thank you as I await your urgent reply. Rolande Hussianna.



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