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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: davina daniels <davina_daniels001@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 09:11:29 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: I NEED YOUR HELP


Dear Respectful one.

My Warm greetings to you and your family. I introduce my self to you with all faith, trust and hope you will understand to assist us not to betray us at the end.

My name is Davina Daniels and i was 23Years old Girl when my father died 2 years ago in a gold mine in Mende , Republic of Liberia. He was into legal gold mining; he has succeeded in saving the sum of Twelve Million, five hundred thousand United State Dollars. ($12.500, 000) left in fixed /suspense account in one of the prime bank in Belgium ' reasons because of the political problem in our country, during his Business on Gold, before he was involve in a plane crash on a business trip to near by country to our country .

Since the death of our father our step mother has been trying to count me and my junior brother off out from the family, to kill us, she has been given us a lot of problem and she have collected every thing both our family inheritance from us and now she still need the Deposit Certificate to claim this fund but I can't give this to her because is all we have to leave with. I am 25 years while my brother is 20 years old of age we still need to go to school and have a better education and start a new life.

Right now me and my brother are hiding in a refugee camp in Lome Togo our father used my Younger Brothers name 'Ben Daniels as the next of kin to the Deposited fund in Belgium . And we ran away with the deposit document, so nobody has access to the money now except my younger Brother Ben and me.

Please Sir or Madam; We need your help to assist us transfer this money to your custody for investment and proper care of the fund and you will be sincere to invite us to your country without cheating us or doing bad to us on my arrival with my Brother, we are willing to respect and trust to the cuase of the transaction. Please mail me back urgently to know your stands and williness to assist us before looking for help elsewhere, you're the first person we are contacting in this issue.

Please permit me to ask, can you honestly help us as your own people and can we completely trust you? requesting for this vital information from you if you agreed to assist us out of our problem, please kindly confirm to us your personal data.

1) Your full name.
2) Phone number....
3) Address.........
4) Country.....State
5) Profession, age and marital status.
6) Occupation and position.

Please i expect your interest to assist me and my Brother. Hoping to hear from you soon, kindly send response to: May God bless you and preserve our friendship in good faith.

Best regards
Davina Daniels and Brother,
(Ben)




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