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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: Mavis Gabriel <mavis_gabriel@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:51:14 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: EMERGENCY


Dear=A0 Good Friend
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 =A0
I pray God this message reaches you in wonderful spirit.I am making this co=
ntact with you based on trust and confidence irrespective of the fact that =
we have not met before and because of the nature of the situation I found m=
yself, I am Mavis Gabriel. the son of late former Minister Of Mines and Nat=
ural Resource during the time of Major Koromah,the former Military Head of =
State of the Republic of=A0 Sierra Leone,who was massacred by President Tin=
jani Kabbah force in their struggle to re-instate him back to power. My bro=
ther and I are refugee here since the death of our father, because of the c=
ondition of his death.
=A0
Before the death of my father some months ago he disclosed to me some money=
he had deposited in my name in a neighboring country inWest-Africa. The to=
tal amount of the money is $32M, US dollars and 42 kilos of Gold all in a s=
ecurity=A0 vault in the West Africa neighboring country, The document regar=
ding this consignment was handed over to me by my father before his death, =
I carefully searched and found the security Company where I Confirmed that =
the consignment were deposited for safe Keeping in their security vault in =
the neighboring Country. The content were deposited as a family valuable,by=
Virtue of right as the son of my late father, the Security Company has acc=
epted to release the consignment actually.
I am seeking your assistance because my father has declared the record with=
the security company stating that his foreign partner form oversea shall b=
e authorized person to make claim on this consignment because of his positi=
on government on which no name was given by my father as his foreign partne=
r. To this effect, I request to make the beneficiary of His consignment in =
your name as foreign partner to Claim this consignment.
=A0
For your assistance, room is Open for negotiations. This is a risk free tra=
nsaction As my father deposited this valuable as a personal Belonging. In t=
his situation every process to completely move This valuable may not exceed=
(3) working days,if your co-operation to assist is sort. I shall be very G=
rateful to hear from you, all documents concerning this are intact with me,=
please kindly reach me as Soon as possible trough my email:
Best Regards,
=A0
Mavis Gabriel
Please all dealing should be confidential=0A=0A=0A

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