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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: "olivet.douglass2@yahoo.com" <olivet.douglas02@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 09:35:27 +0000
Subject: Hello my dear


Hello my dear,

Complements of the season! How are you doing over there.hope you are doing
fine, if so thanks be to the almighty God. Am very happy to tell you all
about myself without exception which will interest you. my name is Miss
Olivet Douglass, 22 yeas old Girl From South Sudan in North Africa. I am a
young single pretty girl, never married, i saw your profile here and i
carefully read your personal data. I am the only child of late Captain
Douglass Ajana (The Senior Security Adviser to vice president John Garang)
from North Sudan . My father was a top member of the People's liberation
Army which fought one of African longest-running wars between the
Christians, animist south and the Muslims of Arab-Speaking North.

After a peace agreement was signed between my father's group and their
counterpart president Umar Hasan Al Bashir. The war officially ended and my
father was appointed a senior security adviser to the first vice president,
my daddy held this position for only 3 weeks and he was set up and killed by
a gun shot. along with his bosom friend (Vice president John Garang) and the
12 others on their way back to Sudan from Uganda, dated 30 July, 2005. last
years my mother was killed through war in my country, little did we know
that Umar Al bashir is the master-minder of their death? Then, I managed to
escape for my dear life and ran into Lome Togo where my daddy's wealth is.

Before my father died he made his final WILL and I am the beneficiary of his
WILL. In accordance with paragraph 8(ii) of his last Testamentary
Disposition as directed by him, my daddy made me his Next of Kin to the sum
of 9 Million USD$ in his Domiciliary US Dollar account with Citi Bank. Now
my dear, this information I revealed to you is my life, and I believe you
will never betray me, this is as regards the distribution of all sums
standing in his name in his USD Savings and Current Account with Citi Bank
of Togo .

So i need your assistance to help me claim and transfer this money into your
company or private bank account in your State and as soon as the Citi Bank
transfers the money into your bank account, you will use some of the money
to get me out of here, if possible you will send someone to pick me up from
here or you will fly down here by yourself I and you will depart to your
home in your country at once for investment of my money and continuation of
the best life there. Upon the declaration of your interest I will email you
with the contact information of the International Remittance Department of
Citi Bank of Lome Togo, and provide you with any necessary document needed
for you to claim the money on my behalf. The documents are with me here.
They are right in my bag.

And I will be very glad to also have detailed information about you.
After going through your profile I decided to contact you to assist me claim
and retain the money in your City for investment. I will compensate you
reasonably after the transfer. I have decided to give you 10% of the 9
Million US Dollar for all your assistance.

Note/ Considering my situation and problem presently there is nothing I can
do to help myself than to trust somebody, and to trust somebody is by
choice, you are my choice of trust and I see nothing wrong with the choice I
made in you. That is why I revealed all about me to you. I took time to
write this letter over-night before typing it to you today so that you will
see my problem, team up with me to claim the money on my behalf and apply
seriousness in the investment and management of the money as I earlier told
you.

Since my being here I have been watching the situations to avoid any one not
to know about me for the sake of my safety, My father warned me before his
untimely death that on no condition should I disclose this to anybody in
Sudan. with this warning I had been having sleepless nights since and have
refused to even disclose this to the church camp where I am presently for
fear of being harmed or kidnapped .I have resolved to tell you this
information in confidence to know if you can help me arrange and receive
this money into your account by standing for me as my foreign partner.

I believe it will be easier for me this way in order not to expose too much
my Identity and also able to get out of this country. If you can do this for
me, I will be very happy. Then I will send you the necessary document's as I
was giving by my father... On what to do in this regard with due respect. I
will also need you to give me your full names, home address and personal
telephone number.
Let your heart and goodness be guided towards me.

Remain bless and good health
Ms. Olivet Douglass

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