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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: "Angelina David" <dangelina76@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 22:57:26 +0000
Subject: Hello My Dear

Hello Dear,
How are you and how was your day today, mine is very hot here in Senegal, i have decided to contact you due to the urgency of my situation here, dear i have a special reason for contacting you, i would like to tell you all about me and my situations, My Name is Miss Angelina David, i am Origin of Sierra leone west africa, Presently living in Dakar-Senegal With Red Cross organisation, i manage to escape through the help of Red cross from the war due to i was schooling in another state in Sierra Leone during the war.
I don't have any relatives there again because my father was in all his life living in Sierra Leone with my mother who died in resulf of heart attack, My father was the director of cocoa farmers association in Sierra leone before his death in the hands of rebels during the war in Sierra Leone. and he was into cocoa business as well, My late Father deposited some amount of money ($7.2million dollars ) inside a box and deposited it as a consignment with a private security company in Europe. This was because of the war in my country and this was the only means and way which my father could possibly move out this money from the country because of the political war,
My father used his position to move out this consignment through a diplomatic means to the security company's affiliated office in europe. My father had the intention to travel over to the security company's vault office in europe to claim and retreive back this consignment and use the money for an overseas investment, Before he was killed, as a result of the political war in my Sierra Leone which i believe that you must have heared about it,
Please since i am left alone as an orphan having lost my father and other members of my family that is why i have decided to contact you to seek for your total help and assistance in retreiving this consignment since due to my age as a girl and coupled with my present situation and my inablity to travel to europe to the vault of the security company i want you to help me to claim and retreive this consignment and have the money invested in your country and as well help me to relocate to your country to start a new life with you again and as well to conclude my education.
Please i am willing to offer you 20% of the money inside the consignment as soon as it is claimed and retreived from the vault of the security company in europe, Please i am willing to give you more details about this matter i want you to know that this is the only inheritance which my father left and it is the only hope that i have to start my life again, therefore i will higly need your total consent in this matter. I am waiting for your soonest reply and i will tell you more about this matter May god bless you as you consider to help and assist me towards this matter,
I am in a big suffering to be here in the refugee camp. i will give you more details and the contact of where my inheritance is in Europe so that you will contact the diplomatic agent and help me to retrieve my inheritance treasure box.
My regards to you,
Miss Angelina

Hello Dear,
How are you and how was your day today, mine is very hot here in Senegal, i have decided to contact you due to the urgency of my situation here, dear i have a special reason for contacting you, i would like to tell you all about me and my situations, My Name is Miss Angelina David, i am Origin of Sierra leone west africa, Presently living in Dakar-Senegal With Red Cross organisation, i manage to escape through the help of Red cross from the war due to i was schooling in another state in Sierra Leone during the war.
I don't have any relatives there again because my father was in all his life living in Sierra Leone with my mother who died in resulf of heart attack, My father was the director of cocoa farmers association in Sierra leone before his death in the hands of rebels during the war in Sierra Leone. and he was into cocoa business as well, My late Father deposited some amount of money ($7.2million dollars ) inside a box and deposited it as a consignment with a private security company in Europe. This was because of the war in my country and this was the only means and way which my father could possibly move out this money from the country because of the political war,
My father used his position to move out this consignment through a diplomatic means to the security company's affiliated office in europe. My father had the intention to travel over to the security company's vault office in europe to claim and retreive back this consignment and use the money for an overseas investment, Before he was killed, as a result of the political war in my Sierra Leone which i believe that you must have heared about it,
Please since i am left alone as an orphan having lost my father and other members of my family that is why i have decided to contact you to seek for your total help and assistance in retreiving this consignment since due to my age as a girl and coupled with my present situation and my inablity to travel to europe to the vault of the security company i want you to help me to claim and retreive this consignment and have the money invested in your country and as well help me to relocate to your country to start a new life with you again and as well to conclude my education.
Please i am willing to offer you 20% of the money inside the consignment as soon as it is claimed and retreived from the vault of the security company in europe, Please i am willing to give you more details about this matter i want you to know that this is the only inheritance which my father left and it is the only hope that i have to start my life again, therefore i will higly need your total consent in this matter. I am waiting for your soonest reply and i will tell you more about this matter May god bless you as you consider to help and assist me towards this matter,
I am in a big suffering to be here in the refugee camp. i will give you more details and the contact of where my inheritance is in Europe so that you will contact the diplomatic agent and help me to retrieve my inheritance treasure box.
My regards to you,
Miss Angelina



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