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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: daniel sampah <sampah0137@hotmail.co.uk>
Reply-To: <barrdansampah@yahoo.fr>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:05:32 +0100
Subject: BARRISTER DANIEL SAMPAH




Dear Friend,



This message might meet you in utmost surprise, First of all I want you to Know that this is not a scam mail.Because based on what is going on all over the internet world, people find it very difficult to believe things like this any more.If you can guarantee me from your own side, your trust,honestly I will be able to work with you.I will appreciate if you can come down your self and see things for your self before we proceed and this will make things clearer for you.




But Why I 'm sending you this letter, I think if that situation has a place in internet, maybe one out of 1000 has a real fund for transaction.



I, am Barrister Daniel Sampah, a personal lawyer to one late Mr.Ruth Fred Leo An American oil Contractor with the Ivoirien Solid Minerals Corporation, here in Abidjan Ivory Coast who died in an auto Crash in september 2006. later Mr. Ruth Fred leo before his untimely death, made some deposit of funds with a Finance firm here and did not declare any information of any of his relatives to the said fund deposit at the time of deposit.


Where you come in is that I needed your good collaboration to pull out these funds to overseas for investments because, he left with me the deposit information and no body could come around to lay claim if not I and a foriegner in good collaboration since he did not leave any information of any of his relatives.


I will apprecaite if you can send me the following,

1.Your Full Names.
2.Your current Mobile telephone and fax numbers.
3.Your age.
4.Occupation.
5.Your Current address.
6.company name


Kindly get back to me inorder to bring you to the detail arrangement to move out the funds accross to your destination.



Kind Regards,


Barrister Daniel Sampah
(legal Practitioners and Advocates


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