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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: Daniel Panenka <ss11ss22ss@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:21:43 +0000
Subject: hello



hi, there my name is daniel and i life in germany and i think i got a message like this was told,
may you help me handle it because i got no idear,
thx daniel



MY LIFE MYSTRIES WITH LOVE, TRUST CONFIDENCE ON YOU DANIEL.ý
Von: gift bouba (gift_4life@yahoo.com)
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 18. Juli 2007 06:46:44
An: Daniel Panenka (ss11ss22ss@hotmail.com)










DEAREST ONE DANIEL ,How are you doing today l hope you are doing fine with you plus your health and work, my days is very boring over here .ln 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 here soon as long as i have you in my life, I don't have any relatives now that i can go to, all my relatives ran away in the middle of the crisis the only person i have now is Rev. Paulson Rene who is the Rev of the ( Christ the king Churches ) here in the camp he has been very good to me since l came here but l am not living with him rather, l am living in the women's hostel because the camp have two hostels one for men the other for women.The Rev Tel number is (+221-599-45-79) i will like if you will call and tell him that you want to speak with me he will send for me in the hostel.this computer is inside his office we only make use of it in the morning before he comes to office, As a refugee here i don't have any right or privilege to anything be it 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 i will like to tell you this because i believe you are close now to me, it has been to me only and the Rev, 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 a leading bank which he used my name as the next of kin,the amount in question is $1.7(One Million Seven Hundred Thousand US Dollars). l will please want you to assist me transfer this money to your account in your country so from it you will send some money for me to get my travelling documents 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, i will want before i could give you the contact of the bank, you to send me some contact informations of yours such as your? Names ................................Address ..............................Country.................................Phone Numbers.................... I did 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 the 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 which i think depends on us. 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 alot to tell you. l kept this secret to people in the camp here the only person that knows about it is the Rev because he is like a father to me, have a nice day and take care of yourself, this is the email address of the (revpaulrene@yahoo.com) . l hope to hear from you soonest, have a lovely day and think of me, i remain yours forever in love . G I F T .






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