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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: Shula Mbule <smbul00@yahoo.fr>
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 03:41:31 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Letter From Shula


Dear ,How are you ? hope fine , Please sorry for the inconveniences , this threaten is too much for me and i can not continue bearing it ,Since they kill my father and my mother and no judgement prevail till today , than threaten to kill me too , calling me on phone asking for money or they kill me ,i decide and i decide , i can never come back to my country rest of my life.

Please i need your good assistance to move out some funds from Africa here to your country without delay, i will make procedures well know to you if you accept to help me , I'm in critical threaten condition now and i can never wait any longer , Please i need your help to get my life save .i only took my Bag and some documents and move to Boundary country near my country to secure my self in a hotel now .and to plan on how to secure those money in your country .
This money is too much money , in my present my father counted it in bundle's Worth's $19.7m American dollars .

My father Merited this money from Diamond sales in my country and as a wise man and due to conditions of our country , he move to another country and save the money for our future , Although he plan to build houses in London and America , But bad people don't allow him to live and continue his plans .

Non of my relatives knows where I am now and non of them knows about this money in deposit company , So dear I will like only you to know about this and keep it secret with me until we transfer all the money to your country and I arrive and stay with you , and you help to invest it in good business you know that will make more profits in your country .

I will forward you all contacts of the finance security company , so that you will contact them and verify about this money in their position first .i will send you the deposit documents the bank issue to my father for your verification.
Again i will compensate you with 30% , of this money , for helping me.

Please for now i have no phone number to communicate with you , But i will buy phone by next week to communicate with you , unless you can call me with the Hotel phone number i am now .i can give you that if you want to call me.
Please write me back , I'm waiting to hear from you soon .

Faithfully
Shula


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