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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: alice welsh <alice_welsh28@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <alice_welsh001@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 05:24:53 +0200
Subject: From Mrs Alice Welsh




Dearest Friend, I am Mrs Alice Welsh from Siera Leone writing you from Cotonou, I beleive by God's grace I got your contact in confidence After asking for God's directions,Despite I never disclose why I needed your contact to any body.
I wish to know if you can assist us in by removing and handling both our fund of $15.Million (Fifteen million U.S. Dollars and invest Presently in your land of business,the fund and the gold is still in the Falcon Trust Security Company,where my late husband deposited it for safe keeping and my husband never disclosed the content to the Falcon Trust Security Company, he only decleard it as "personal/family treasure"because he do not want the company to know the content of the boxes. Since you are involved in associated business in your country, I and my son will love if we will invest our fund in your business and you help us look for a buyer of gold over there, because we do not know any body overseas,and we don' t want to do anything here in Africa. I and my son are in need of a God fearing person who will assist us very well in this fund that we are about to invest overseas, where we will invest it properly with the person's advice.If you can assist us receive this fund, kindly send to me your phone number with fax,and your full name and address for us to get you approved as our beneficiary,because we want to finalize this in five or six days from today. I am honourably seeking for your assistance in the following ways:
(1)To assist me to move this my late husband money out of the security company to your conutry successfully.
(2)To make arrangement for me and my son to come over to your country for investment,
(3)To help find admission in a good university to enable him finish his educational career in your country. Please let me know if you are interested to assist us so that I will send to you phone number of my son for you to call him and discuss on the percentage we will offer you also send you the aggreement which my late husband deposited the consignment with. Hope to receive your reply today. REPLY ME TO THIS MY ALTERNATIVE EMAIL ADDRESS BELOW: welsh001@hotmail.fr Yours faithfully,
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