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

Fraud email example:

From: l s <larry_saeed85@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <larry_saeed@yahoo.fr>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:08:42 +0000
Subject: MY DEAREST ONE




MY DEAREST ONE,

I am Larry Saeed with my sister Aerith Saeed, we are the children of the late Mr. Mohd Ali Saeed, the former chairman director Coals and Mines Association in Sierra Leone .I and my sister are mailing this confidential message to you alone, believing you will be of great help to us, we are looking for a reliable foreign partner who will be our guardiahsip to safeguard us and our inheritance fund, for safe keeping and investing of our inheritance before we lose it to government who are tracing and seizing all my late fathers property because he did make a good account in his tenure before he was probed of looting government fund,I am totally convinced to write you in reference of the transfer of our inheritance, (US$7.500.000.00) to your account for onward investment in your country. My late father was killed by his political members just on November 2006, our mother divorced our father many years ago, before his death he gave us information of his deposit fund in Cote D’ivoire that we should go and invest it for our future, since there is a rebel fight against the past government of Sierra Leone as of June 1998.My father was poisoned in a conference with the present government recently, this present governments are bringing more crises to our country as a dictatorship. Following this political crisis, we were forced to leave our country to Abidjan the capital city of Côte d’Ivoire for our life sake and to have a good future education and investment with this fund. It is here in Abidjan my father deposited the said money with Biao bank in cote d'ivoire because of his political ambition in our country. Since we have got all this information here to locate this bank here and with the relevant documents my late father gave to us in regards to this deposits here in Abidjan , if you are thus and truly disposed to assist us in transferring of these funds for our future. We would also wish you to invest this fund for us since i am 20yrs and my sister 18yrs now, also compensating you with 30% reward to assist us, and because after my enquiry for the transfer, the bank here required us to present our guardian beneficiaries name and account through which the fund will be remitting from here to overseas account abroad.please i need your urgent assistant,we have not even eating well for past some days now because we are here as political asylum and refagees, charity help is urgently needed to save our lives, please your assistance is highly needed for our both benefit, Remember to keep this transaction secret for our security here. Your urgent reply will be highly appreciated if you can assist us and invest this fund wisely for us.and please to proof your help to us send to us with the following, 1,Your full name.2,Your phone/mobile numbers.3,Your bussiness name and address. We wish you ALLAH blessings, Best regards Yours sincerelyPrince Larry and Aerith.
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