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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: scottrobert11@zipmail.com.br
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 04:03:04 +0200
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dear=20Friend=2C?=



Dear Friend,
I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting the funds transferre
dunder
the cooperation of a new partner from Paraguay. Presently I'm in France
for
investment projects with my own share of the total sum. Meanwhile, I didn't
forget your past efforts and attempts to assist me in transferring the funds
despite that it failed us some how. I know it was not your intention to
back out
but circumstances made that possible.

Now contact my secretary, his name is kelvin sadoul. You can contact him
on his
email address kelvin_sadoul2002@yahoo.dk and phone +229 9723 8509 and ask
him to send
you a total sum of $1,500,000.00 which I kept for you as compensation for
all
the past efforts and attempts to assist me in this matter. I appreciated
your
efforts at that time very much. So feel free and get in touch with my secretary
and instruct him where to send the amount
to you. Also note that I have paid for the mailing cost, the clearance
certificate and insurance premium.

It will interest you to note that I have paid every fee and charges including
the mailing fee and Clearance Certificate fee.Your only financial obligation
is
the security keeping fee of $105.00 which the security compny refused to
collect
from me insisting that they do not know when you will contact them as same
is
charged according to time spent. Do not allow anybody to deceive you or
lure you
into paying another money please.

Please do let me know immediately you receive the draft so that we can share
the
joy after all the pressure at that time. In the moment, I am very busy here
because of the investment projects which my new partner and I are having
at
hand.

Finally, remember that I have forwarded instructions to my secretary on
your
behalf to ensure that the cheque is mailes to you without hinderanceas soon
as
you have paid this security keeping fee to the security compny. Therefore,
feel
free to get in touch with kelvin sadoul, he will Pursue the sending of the
cheque to you without any delay.DO NOT PAY ANY OTHER FEE EXCEPT THE SECURITY
KEEPING FEE OF $105.00.
With Best Regards,

Mr.William Ben.
Your Friend and Partner.





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