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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: Danielle Taylor <damseltaylor605@yahoo.com.tr>
Reply-To: orangegirl_8786@yahoo.fr
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 16:39:06 +0300 (EEST)
Subject: Dear sir/madam


Dear sir/madam,

I need your assitance to claim some money left by my late mother in a bank and invest it in your country.


To introduce myself to you fully,my name is miss Danielle Taylor,iam 21yrs old,iam the only child of mrs.fidelia taylor the fourth wife of the former
liberian president,Mr. Charles Taylor.

I and my mother have been living in Ivory coast since the year 1995 because of the political crises in our country liberia.

My mother died in august 27th 2005 in a ghastly motor accident that involved her car and a heavy truck around adjame in abidjan, Coted'Ivoire.

she was a business woman when she was alive.she used to suply many companies in Asia and Europe with Cocoa from here in Coted'Ivoire and she used to buy Diamonds from Sierra Leone and Export to many countries with the help of my Daddy when he was the president of my country.

My problems started immediately my mother died,her corpse was flewn to my country Liberia for burial but it was rejected by the Taylor dynasty (the extended family of my father),they said that my mummy is not one of charles Taylor's wives,that my father did not marry her in accordance with the custom of our people,that it was friendship that my mummy and my Daddy was doing and for that,that she would not be buried in the Taylor family accoording to the custom of my people.after i tried all i could but to no avail because the three remainig wives of my father bribed all the elders in our family and no one was by my side,she was later buried in a nearby public cemetary in my Village with the help of her friends and business partners.

so after her burial,things got more complicated.my father's wives and their children came over here to Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire and claim all her business and properties.they said that the properties was acquired deliberately using my mother's name by my father and that the business was established by their husband and for that,that it all belong to them.

For now,it is a fixed deposit account that she have with a bank in Abidjan that contains the sum of $US17 million that is left for me because nobody knows about it.

The bank manager has adviced me to find a trusted partner in abroad to enable the money to be transfered out of the country as soon as possible before my father's wives finds out the existence of it .
That is where i want you to assist me please,just to let this money be transfer into your account or you open a new account for it purpose if you doesn't want to use your personal bank account.

The bank manager assured me that they is no risk on the transfer except that i'm going to lose atleast 15 to 20% of the money to the person it will be transfered into his or her account while 5% is to be maped out for the expenditure that might occour on the process of the transfer,and who am i to say no when i dont want to lose it all to this wicked people.

I will want you to help me to invest it in a good business in your country when they transfers it to your account and also help me to be taken care of the investment for atleast 5yrs. so that i can finish my studies and then take over from you.
Plz take me just as your daughter,sister, or even as your wife and help me out of this situation before it becomes late.

The reason why iam contacting you is because i don't have and i don't know anyone abroad. My late mummy who was from Uganda had never introduced me to any of her people before she died.

If you care to assist me on this,mail me back urgently so we can discuss more about it plz.

all i need from you is introducing yourself,country, your phone number and tell me how you are going to help me,i mean how much of the money iam going to pay you after the transfer or another alternative that you needs please.

While you are making arrangement,also consider the type of business that the money will be good to invest in your country. i will also like you to consider if your country is a habitable place for foreigners like me so that i can migrate to your country and continue my studies there. i realy need to go out of this continent before my father's family members kills me.

Thanks for your understanding,hope to hear from you urgently.
God bless you aboundantly.
Danielle


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