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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: davis masuku <davismasuku1574@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <davismasukus1989@hotmail.fr>
Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 20:11:34 +0000
Subject: Assalamu Alaikum. Dear Friend



Assalamu Alaikum. Dear Friend

I am Mr Davis Masuku a 19yrs old boy, the son to the late Mohd Kasim Masuku from District in the Northern province of Sierra Leone, I am writing you in absolute confidence primarily to seek your assistance to secure our inheritance security vault worth over Seven Million Five hundred thousand united states Dollars ($7,500.000.00) now in the custody of a finance firm here will under my names as the next of kin,

Source of the money: My late father was the General Manager of Sierra Leone Mining co-operation (S.L.M.C.) Freetown. According to my late father, this money was the income accrued from Mining Co-operation's overdraft and minor sales. the civil war between the rebels forces of Major Paul Koroma and the combined forces of ECOMOG peace-keeping operation that almost destroyed our country, following the forceful removal from power of the civilian elected President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah by the rebels.

The rebel collegues arrested and probe our late father for looting away the economy by not returning this funds back to the government treasury, my late father before he was probed did not endorse the funds back but rather he decided to divert it and moved it out of the country to a finance banking safe security vault so as to use his foreign partner to secure it for future investment because of our bad government, after suffering in detention house he was poisoned to death and was relaeased half death he caled me behind and advised me on this funds here for our future after informing this bank for our arrival here for this funds before he died in the hospital, i have all necessary documents to get the funds out from the finance firm, which I will give to you to qualify you as our late fathers partner as was mentioned during the deposit because my Father made them to under stand that the funds are partnership ownerships with his friends because of his political ambition. My father had already made arrangement for I and my two sisters to be evacuated to Ivory Coast with the certificate deposit for this funds he made with a finance firm here before he died.

During the war in my country, and following the indiscriminate looting of Public and Government properties by the rebel forces, the Sierra Leone mining cooperation was destroyed, our dearly beloved mother on her way home during the riots including other top Government functionaries was attacked and killed by the rebels because of our relationship with the civilian Government of Ahmed Tejan Kabbah. As a result of my father's death, and with the information we got that the rebels are out for us because of our inherited funds, we ran away burden became too much for me to handle coupled with the ill health of my sister. she died in the process as i could not afford her decent medical care. Our only hope now is in this funds deposited in the finance firm here which we wanted you to assist in securing this funds for our future. to this effect, I humbly solicit your assistance in the followings ways.

1. To be present at the bank here as our late fathers and our guardianship or write a letter application to bank here as our guardin beneficiary for the transfering of this funds back to your country for our future.

2 To assist in providing me and my sister a permanent residential permit in your country after the money must have been transferred to your account.

3. To make a good arrangement for a joint business investment on our behalf in your country and you, our Adviser/ and financial partner For your assistance, I have agreed with my only surviving sister that 20% of the total amount will be for your effort, Lastly, I urge you to keep this transaction strictly confidential as no one knows our whereabouts.

Please as you show your willingness, forward your full name, and Mobile Telephone/ Fax numbers to me urgently for as a proof honesty.

Thank you, May God bless you as you assist us.

Davis Masuku


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