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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: junior perry <junior_perry9@yahoo.fr>
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 01:47:30 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: FROM JUNOIR.


Dearest one.
I hope that after you read this message, you would be able to assist me finish this business. Let me begin by introducing myself. my name is Perry junior kuta I am 17 years old son of the late Major Gen. Jerry kuta, my dead father was the chief of admin and finance, Sierra leone Army,headquaters from 1993 to 1998, my father just died 4 months ago. and I am actually alone because i had eariler lost my mother when i was 12years old.

I have no brother or sister so i am actiually the only child of my dead parents.
( I am an orhange) so, two days before my father died, he called me and handed over a box containing some thing that looked like black paper cut to the size of money, He told me that the box actually containued US Dollar Bills, that was defaced to aviod it from being detected during its movement outside Sierra leone,

so you may think i am playing but my father actually told me how almost all serving military officers and government officials used this way of taking money outside Sierra leone, My father also gave me the name and address of the man who normally washes of the chemical used to darken the Dollar bills, i went his address in Ghana only to be told that he too had died of lungs cancer, at the beggining of this year, Right now, i am really in a fix as i have no where to deposit this money,

In the box, i have Dollar bills ( darkened to avoid instant usage) worth $16million Dollars, and a small bottle labelled -: (CCDC#667B2c) this chemical is actually the left over of the Dollar bill with this chemical and everything actually saving the remaining chemical so that when you show your interest, i could actually send you the sample by DHL COURIER SERVICE so you too could actually wash it yourself and see that i mean businss.

so, i would need you to help me as a foreigner. so that this money could be moved outside my country and lodged in a bank, also, would like you to arrange for a well known chemist who could arrange for this Dollar bills to be defaced so we can start to spend them, please note that this Dollar bills are original US Dollar bills that was covered with a certain chemical so that as soon as it gets to its destination, another high octane chemical would be used to remove this chemical so it now comes
back to its orginal sate.

so, I am just a 17yrs old boy who has little or no knowledge about money or even investment, so you would act as my businss partner and advicer. Due to my age, i have decided to contact my late fathers lawyer, his name is Mr Harira Kazaure, Please in your next email do send your telephone and fax so he could call you and really find out if you are able and trustworthy to help me (I dont want to fall into wronghands ).
I have told my lawyer that i am going to give you $ 5.2 million Dollar if you can assist me so i plead that you send your contact address where we can send you a sample of the Dollar ($50 ) and the remaining chemical and the direction on how to wash off the chemical from the Dollar bill, then you can spend it Please, i hope you would not want
to cheat me due to my age because i am going to come to your country to begin another life.

The chemical that is left the box has the following tag on it( CCDC#66732c) then it has on the top of the bottle the following tag ( VERY CORROSIVE CHEM. DISPOSE OFF PROPERLY. WEAR FACE MASK/ DISPOSE OFF UNDERGROUND NOT GOOD. MADE IN THE EEC. Finally, i want to send you a sample of $50 Dollars and the
remaining chemical so you would know i am serious. you can even go ahead and spend the money after you would have washed off the dark face on the original Dollar.
when my lawyer ( Mr Kazaure) calls you, please dont feel ambarrased due to the question he might ask you, he just want to make sure you would not treat me bad when after we washed the $16million Dollars, then the money would be in your account. Please i would wait your email and please reply me through this email addres
perry_junior1@yahoo.fr

I thank you for your interest .

Perry Kuta JUNIOR



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