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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: mam namadi <mamnamadi@yahoo.com.ph>
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 14:53:52 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Greetings


Good day,


I am contacting you to solicite for your assistance in resolving a pressing problem.My name is MRS.NAMADI MAM, from PHILIPPINES. I lost my husband and my only daughter in the Tsunami disaster. Before their untimely death, my husband deals on cocoa and coffee business.

Presently, I am having a big problem with my late husband’s brothers because of the wealth and landed properties my husband left behind. They forced me to release all his banks information and other important documents about his landed properties.They did not stop there, they are monitoring my movements till today to the extent that I can not go out freely nor answer or make telephone calls. They can only give me foods and shelter and nothing else. I can understand that with such treatment, their plan is to do away with my life so that they can feel comfortable with what they snatched from me. It is because of this problem that I decided to contact you for a help to rescue me from this ugly situation before I die here.

Because of my relationship with my late husband, he told me before his death about another money he has in the African country where he goes to do his Coffee and Cocoa business.The money was in a box deposited in a security and finance company in Lome-Togo, and the amount is US$7.5m. He made me to understand that the money was deposited as a family valuable for security reasons. The brothers of my late husband is not aware of this deposit and I will never tell them about that.I am therefore seeking for your assistance to help me secure the money from Africa to your country for investment.

Once I got your response to help me, I will respond with the details on how we should do this.

I shall be waiting for your swift response.

Sincerely yours,
Madam.Namadi Mam.


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