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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: Prince Amason <amason.prince@yahoo.co.id>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 06:08:41 +0700 (ICT)
Subject: i am seeking for your assistance






Dear Sir/Madam,

Greetings in the name of our Lord, how are you and how is your family?hope fine? i am so sorry to disturb you at this time, i know that i have notmelt you in the past but please for the sake of God give this letter a seriousattention, i am so depressed and need to share my worries with someone whom ifeel can assist me, my name is prince amason from rawadan democraticrepublic , i am presently under political asylum here in Dakar-Senegal westafrica as a political refugee and living in the refugee camp.

There is something very important that i wish to share with you and believe youcan assist me, i have an inherittance deposit of 15 Million American dollars which my late father kept under my name in TRUST BANK and i am his next of kin and now the money is my inherittance since he isnow late,now i am seeking that you assist me to get the money released andtransferred to a foreign bank account in any country.

My late Father when he was alife he was a business man in Dafur Sudan ourcountry,he was killed in the on going war in Sudan with the rest of myFamily,since then i have been an orphan and alone with my kid Sister, now i want your help to get my inheritance from the bank and to start a new life,in his personal file i saw the document covering the ownership of the money with the bank, so i had to take it along with me as i ran into this country formy dear life with my sister,i have approached the bank several times but they need me to provide my foreign representative person with a foreign bank account before they will release and transfer the money, they told me that my late father made an agreement with them that the money is for investment and shouldonly be transferred to a foreign bank account and that i do not have any acessto the money for now.

I need your assistance and believe you will be able to assist me. I hope tomeet you in real and hope you will not let me down in the future if you decideto assist me. my greetings to your family,

Yours sincerely,
prince amason

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