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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: philip amos <hphilip60@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <hann_philip20@yahoo.fr>
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 15:03:37 +0200
Subject: PLEASE GET ME IN TOUCH URGENTLY















FROM PHILIP AND HANNAH AMOS Avenu 12 Reu 47 ABIDJAN ABIDJAN REFUGEE CAMP, ABIDJAN REPUBLIC OF COTE-D'IVOIRE Dear, Good Day and God bless as i introduce my self to you with all faith and hope you will understand us and not to betray us at the end. I have the intention to intruduce myself to you My name is PHILIP the only son and my sister's name is HANNAH AMOS. the only daughter .We are the children of late CHIEF CHARLES .M. AMOSE. I am 19 Years old, our father died about 2 years ago on the 5th of april 2005, in a gold mine in MENDE, Republic of Serria Leone . He was into legal gold minning,he has succeded in saving $21,800,000( twenty one million eight hundred thousand U.S. Dollars) during his Business on Gold, before he went on a trip to Republic of Cote D' Ivoire near by country to our country to save his money for security reasons because of the political problem in our country. Unfortunatly he is dead and i will not want the money to be kept like that without any investment purpose . so i am contacting you with full trust that you will not let us down . We need help from you to help us to claim this money transfered to your account in your country out from this bank and take us to your country for investment and who will be sincere to invert us to his country with out cheating us or doing bad to us on my arraival with my sister, I'm willing to give you 20% of the money after the transfer of the money and 5% extra for any expense you incure in this transaction, please mail us immidately urgent to know your stands before looking else where you're the first person we are contacting and also send your phone,fax and account number as soon as possible to enable us to beat the said time. Now permit us to ask these few questions:- 1. Can you honestly help us as your own children? 2. Can we completely trust you? 3.Hope our percentage offer is good accepted by you? Please,Treat this email confidential and get back to us as soon as possible. Yours Sincerely ,PHILIP AND HANNAH AMOS
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