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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: "Elizebeth Dona" <elizebethdona01@yp.com.hk>
Reply-To: elizebethdonax3@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 02:03:04 +0000
Subject: ASSSISTANCE (REPLY TO THIS EMAIL ADDRESS elizebethdonax3@gmail.com)



Dear Sir/Madam,

I am Mrs Alisa Donna from serrie-loene writing you from Cotonou, I
beleive by God's grace I got yourcontact in confidence After asking
for God's directions,Despart I never disclose why I needed your
contact to any body.

I wish to know if you can assist us in by removing and handling both
our fund of $5.5Million (Five million and five hundred thousand U.S.
Dollarsand invest Presently in your land of business,

the fund is still in the deplomatick delevery Security servicess,where
my late husband depositedit for safe keeping and my husband never
disclosed the content to the deplomatick delievery security servecess
,
he only decleard it as "personal/family treasure"because he do not
want the company to know the content of thebox's. Since you are
involved in associated business in your country.

I and my son will love if we will invest our fund in your business
there, because we do not know any bodyoverseas,and we don' t want to
do anything here in Africa.

I and my son are in need of a God fearing person who will assist us
very well in this fund that we are about to invest overseas, where we
will invest it properly with the person's advice.Actually I do notwant
involvement of any African because of our safty,

they killed my husband becouse of his money.If you canassist us
receive this fund, kindly send to me your phone number with fax,and
your full name and addressfor us to get you approved as our
beneficiary,

because we want to finalize this in five or six days from today.
Please let me know if you are interested to assist us so that I will
send to you phone number of my son for you to call him and discuss on
the percentage we will offer you also send you the aggreement which my
late husband deposited the consignment with. Hope to receive your
reply today.


Yours faithfully, From
Mrs Alisa.dona

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