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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: "Mrs Rebbeca" <mrsrebbecajohnson@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Reply-To: mrsrebbeca2008@ozu.es
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 03:43:24 +0200
Subject: i would have written you earlier than now but


My dearest ,

I am Mrs Rebbeca 59yrs old ,i would have written you earlier than now but i was seriously down curse of my illiness i am at the hospital all this weal with my doctors over my high blood pressure and diabetes which keep weighing me down coupled with my right leg seriously scatterred due to bullet shots by the rebels which kept me totally handicapped at my age of 59yrs.

Well I had this urgly experience since my husband was assasinated by the heartless rebels during the war in my country Monrovia-Liberia recently during the regime of exiled Charles Taylor,and the rebels entered our house and killed my husband at the spot.
I am grieved and tears in my eyes as i am explaining this to you for your understanding .

Well i thank God they did not take my life and the lives of my children.My late husband,Mr Dike S. Johnson made a lot of money for me and my children before he was eventually killed.He strictly deposited in a Bank USD$9.5M here in London which i want to invest in your country immediately as i am not strong enough at the moment and my son are still young and were schooling before this tragic situation that poised between hope and disaster in my family.

As you can see my condition is so bitter and urgly at the moment due to this war in my as all our properties at home was burnt down and destroyed by the heartless rebels who particularize their action in destroying people's homes,properties and lives especially on the wealthy and prominent citizens.

For this reason me and my son have to leave our home town and come down here in london where my late husband deposited this money in a bank account here in london.

Based on the fact that london is a english speaking country, me and my son and daughters can not cope up with the living here and as such wants to move this money out of this place for investment on joint partnership arrangement if you will understand our present situation and assist us in both re-locating this deposit for investment in your country as well as assiting my self and son out of this country for our living and investment with this deposit through your advise as we have not being into business before and have no knowledge of any kind of business,hence my plea for you to assist us in this regard.

I will equally need your assistance in probably sharing your knowledge and experience in business with my son so he can have a better life and better future in your country.

I advise that we handle this matter strictly between you and us without the involvement of third party, please i beg you,as no one can predict the mind of people of the world due to lack of trust and lack of sincerity and the bad mind of the world.

Why i am trying to explain all these to you is for you to know our present situation and my handicapsy at moment which is my major reason for taking this deposit out from here to your country for investment on a mutual terms of agreement that will be agreed
upon by both of us during our meeting.

Please i want you to understand that this matter is very important to me as such must be taken very serious though this might sound strange to you as we have not met before but accept it with purity,
sincerity,honesty,committment and compassion of your heart because of our urgly situation and the genuiness of our mind in contacting you and also our desperation to partner with you with this money available to us now as our only hope for our future survival especially that of my son.

With due respect and on behalf of my son, we thank you so much for your understanding in this matter and wish to inform you also that God will make it possible for you to understand my reason for this call for assistance as God will bless this relationship and your understanding so that it will be of testimonies to our both families in due course.

We are anxiously awaiting your positive assurance, trustworthiness and response to our this mail so that we can further proceeed.

God bless you for your understanding.

Compliment of the day.

Mrs. Rebbeca and son David.


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