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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!

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Fraud email example:

From: conny olu <conny200707@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:05:31 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Mail Form Rwanda!!



My Dear ,
You may be surpised to receive this letter from me since you do not know me personally. I am Miss jenny Gregoire. daughter of Dr Herbert Gregoire who was a business man and a personal advicer to the former head of state. Some years ago, some of worst atrocities in the history of mankind took place in my country Rwanda- and in an ear of hight-speed communication and round the clock news.

The events went almost unnotied by the rest of the world. In only three months, almost i milllon people with the hend of state and all his adivcers were brutally murdered. the Hutn rebels attacked our house one early morning killing my mother and my father which I have no doubt you may be aware if you listen to either BBC or CNN .

Right now am in a refugee camp here in Dakar Senegal, I want to go back to my studies because i only attended my first year before the traggic incident that lead to my being in this situation now took place.Please listen to this,i have my late father's deposit certificate and death certificate here with me which i will send to you latter,because when he was alive he deposited some amount of money in a finance company in Europe which he used my name as the next of kin,the amount in question is $3.5M(Three Million five Hundred Thousand Dollars).

So i will like you to help me transfer this money to your account and from it you can send some money for me to get my travelling documents and air ticket to come over to meet with you.I kept this secret to people in the camp here the only person that knows about it is the Revrend because he is like a father to me. So in the light of above i will like you to keep it to yourself and don't tell it to anyone for i am afraid of loosing my life and the money if people gets to know about it.

Remember i am giving you all this information dueto the trust i deposed on you.I like honest and understanding people,truthful,what i need from you is, for you to see that the money is transfered to a good account and also to make arrengment on how i will come over and stay with you and continue my life and education.

my choosing you is a question i knew you must ask and i think it is a good question.i have two reasons for choosing you, i choosed you because it is the will of God.and i believe knowing you will bring hope back again to my life. my choosing you does not mean i do not have anybody from africa.i have two uncles,that is my late fathers junior brothers whom i think are suppose to be taking care of me but they do not care,all they did was to sell my late fathers houses and company to one mr olson steven from united states and enjoy the money with their wives.

i wanted to tell olson about it but should my uncles know of the money,they can kill me ,so as to eat the money,it was as if my father saw their dead because he told the implication of having a big money in africa and that was the reason,he made the deposit in Europe. the day i wrote you first,i picked up three address from google search and i prayed over it with my rev, father.he broth the pieces of papper and wrote the three email address in it and fold it,he ask me to pick one and i picked your email address,then i decided to write you and i also believe that it is the will of God.

I do not have a phone but you can reach me on the Revs number.00221-490-63-79. pls if you care to help me, forward to me your information and your picture so that i can know you better, you can also contant me on ( jennyrwandgo@yahoo.com) i will send you my picture once i hear from you. Thanks waiting to here from you soon, and have a wonderful day.
Yours Truly Miss jenny Gregoire.
God Bless You.

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