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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: lilian4u rudoey <lilian4u_rudoey@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 03:46:39 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: yours lilian/bank contact



thanks alot for your respond,my dear i don't really know how to
thank you for your kind help,but i have put everything in Gods hand,may
he see us through in this our relationship,so that we can achieve our
goal,my dear i have been praying and fasting to almghty God to bring a
honest person in my life but today he answer my prayer by bringing you
in my life,i am alone for many years now but today i am with
somebody,since i lost my parent's and my only brother i am not with
myself,i have pass through many temptation's,hardship,betrayer's from our
family,treating from people around me but almghty God serve my life
through an old woman who brought me in dakar senegal where i am now,immediatly we came to dakar senegal we went to register with west african christian
helper's organization which they have been help me and the old woman,we
live in their camp for good 6month's before the woman get in contact with
her children in oversea and they start sending money to
her,and she send me back to school so that i can contiune my
education,she really help me alot,but after everything i lost her on
5/02/06,since then i am not with my self i'm really confuse because i
don't really know where to start again,i can not contiune my education which is very important thing in my life,i went back to the organization because i
can not be able to afford house rent here in dakar senegal it's too
expensive,that's why i seek for your help so that you can get this
money transfered to your account then you send some money for me to enable me to get all need travel document's i may need to comeover to your home and contiune my life overthere with you,i am planing when i finish my
education before i can for the money my late father deposited for me,
but now all my plan has fail there's nothing i can do now this money with
the bank are all i have in my life,it's the only inheritance i got from my
late father,please do what you can to help me out,my dear before writing my first mail to you i made 3day's fasting and praying telling almghty God my suffering the death of my late parent's,that i need a honest person who will help me and retrive the money my late father deposited in a bank which i am the next of kin,after doing the prayer's i pick 3 people in the site and sent my proposal to them among the 3people you are the person who respond back to me,my dear you responding back to i believe it's Gods doing,i believe there's no way he will direct me to a wrong person because he have been protecting me since the death of my parent's.


my dear i went to the bank last time and i spoke with the bank
manager and he told me that the money is there but they are not going
to do with me direct due to my refugee status,that i should contact any of my
relation or my late father's business partner which it's not possible
to do that because of my life,if those people he mention should findout
that i am still alive i believe they are going to come for me,because
they claim all my late father's house in the city even his petrol
filling station are claim by them,this money with the bank is the only
thing that remain on my hand because before his death in the central hospital
he called me and the old woman personal before giving me the deposit
certificate of the money he deposited on a bank on my name he told the
woman that she should take care of me for death or alive and he gave me
all the related documents and the deposit consigning the deposit,and he
gave up,please my dear i really want to be with you there's no
way i can go back to my home country due to my late father's
commitment during his time in goverment office all his collegue's are
death also and some are in prison,and they believe that i have some of my late
father's important document's that is why the woman ask me let us live
the country becuse my life and her too because she is close to my family
she is our family cooker for good14year's,

my dear i would like you to contact the security company so that you
can findout their procedure on how they are going to transfer our money
into your account,please my dear do whatever you can to help me out you
are everything i have in my life,may almghty God be with you for your
kind help,

this is the bank contact.

AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT GROUP BANK
PHONE : 221-3353806
FAX: 221-82 63 143
Email:(afdbsenegal@afdbsenegal.net.tc)(afdbweb@afdbweb.fr.tt)
Contact bank manager.Omoko.A Omoko.
Account number: 85100478256AFDB
Name on the account: Col Kure Jones
Date of the Deposit:14/01/1999
Next of Kin:Miss LILIAN RUDOEY.

Tell them them that you are contact unbehalf Miss LILIAN RUDOEY,that you need information on how to retrive the money deposited by late Col Kure Jones on 14/1/99,from republic of Cote dvoire which Miss Lilian Rudoey. stand's as the next of kin,i will be waiting to hear good news from you soonest.yours Lilian.

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