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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: "missfatou78" <missfatou78@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: missfatoumohammed@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 12:56:45 +0100
Subject: HELLO MY FRIEND

HELLO MY DEAR
I know that this mail will come to you as a suprise but i want you to know that with the condition i am now with my kids i have no other option than to seek for your help in this way,but befor i continue i will like to say thanks first for reading this email and please let me know if you get the email but first i will briefly tell you about my self which i know is the most important thing to do first.
My name is miss fatou,mohammed onze, i was married to an European man His name is Mr Clifford Onze he was a very hard working and stright man i have a son for him and a duagther too both are living here with me, he have a Company here in Dakar Senegal in partnership with a Senegalise man which i am still suspecting that he is the one responsible for Mr Clifford my late husband death i got married with him 1999 and he was dead at 2005 and since then i have being on this firgth till now.
Now the Senegalese man that i suspected that he is the one that killed my late husband have change every of there pro-party that bare his name and Mr Cliffords Onze name to his own name and when i take him to curt he payed the Judges lots of money to Tell me that there is nothing like that exist they now claim that my late husband was just working for the Senegalise man,he even tratined to kill me if i try to go further in the case so i was advice to save the lifes of my kids first so i got a visa and flying ticket to leave the county but the Lord is good and allways firgth for those that do not have someone to firgth for them.
As i was packing my husbands things that is in the house befor living i saw a document in my late husbands brief case sealed with some strange stuff then i try and open it and what i saw there blew my mind in the file there is some legal document of a deposited amuont of money, now i suspend our traveling first so that i can retrieve this money from the bank be for my late husband partner will be away of what is happening then i will be away from the country.
In the documents my late husband Mr Clifford Onze have some amount of money deposited in a finance house here in Dakar Senegal but in the name of his family,then i try to go and confront the bank and they told me that the money can only realize if i present to them one of Mr Clifford family then with me they will release the money and i do not know any one of them,i tried all i can but they say that is there policy there in there bank and there is nothing that i or any other person can do about it.
Now i need your help,as what they need is just a foreigner in all i know just to stand that your Mr Clifford Onze relative, that you want them to realize your brothers money to you and that is all they need,please any amount you need from this money when it get to you is OK by me just help me and take any amount you need and let me and my kids have a better life with the remaining of the money. This is my private email if your intrested just write me direct to my private id (missfatoumohammed@yahoo.com <mailto:missfatoumohammed@yahoo.com>)
Please i am waiting for your reply as soon as you receive this mail then i will send you the rest details.
miss fatou mohammed onze.


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