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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: "Mrs.rebeccabuka" <rebeccabuka016@fastwebmail.it>
Reply-To: rebecca_g2008@live.fr
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 00:06:12 +0200
Subject: Greetings


Greetings

Greetings in the name of the most high GOD. The source through which I got
your contact gave me the confidence to reach you and to disclose this
important issue to you,i know i can trust you but my only fear now is that i
hope and pray you believe what i have to tell you.
I am Mrs.rebecca Buka from Sierra Leone. I lost my husband a couple of
months ago. My husband was a dearest One serving director of the Agro-
exporting board until his death,he was assassinated by the rebels during the
political uprising.

Before his death he deposited 10.5 Millions U.S.Dollars in a trunk box
with a security company here in Cote dIvoire which he deposited for the
purchase of cocoa processing machine and development of another factory
before his untimely death.
Being that this part of the world experiences political crises time without
number, there is no guarantee of lives and property.I cannot invest this
money here any long, despite it has been my late husbands industrial plans.I
want you to do me a favour to receive this funds to a safe account in your
country or any safer place as my partner which the security company will
deliever the trunk box to you in your country . I have plans to invest
this money in continuation with the investment vision of my late husband,
but not in this place again rather in your country.
I have the vision of going into real estate and industrial production. This
is my reason for contacting you. Please if you are willing to assist me, I
will like you to send me your
1. Your full name, contact postal address
2. Your phone and fax numbers.
3. Occupation.
Once i confirm this I will submit offical to the security company as my
partner so that they will ship the trunk box that contain the money to you
over there in your country .please indicate your interest in replying
soonest.

Please reply me through this amail adress (rebecca_g2008@live.fr)

Yours,
Mrs.rebecca Buka

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