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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: <fatou2009@mysinamail.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:46:38 +0800
Subject: From Madam Fatou Mbaye Sankoh.

>From Madam Fatou Mbaye Sankoh.



Goodday,



I search out your email ID this morning through internet hoping to introduce to you a future and long term business transaction. I am Madam Fatou Mbaye Sankoh the wife of Mr Foday Saybana Sankoh who was the leader and founder of the Sierra Leone rebel group Revolutionary United Front (RUF) in the 10-year-long Sierra Leone Civil War.



View this site for more details: http://www.sc-sl.org/ruf.html, view this site for more details http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foday_Sankoh, I am married to Mr Foday Saybana Sankoh for three(3) years without a child due to my womb cancer sickness, My husband was arrested by the UN Troops during the Sierra Leone and keep in the UN hospital costudy where he detained.



While my husband was in the UN costudy he reveal to me that he deposited the sum $10.5 (ten million And Five hundred thousand US dollars) in a

Bank which he wanted to use for his political affair after the war, unfortunately he died in the UN costudy on 29 july, 2003. view this site for

more details http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/752746.stm.



I have contacted the Bank where the money was deposited and the company demanded for my late husband's foreign partner/associate as my husband told them during the time he deposited the fund in their Bank/company. Presently, I am in a critical condition in the hospital, i had a damaged kidney and my Doctor has confirmed that i have few days to live.



Please i am honorably seeking your assistance to be the foreign partner/beneficiary of the money and to use it the way i will instructs you if death

permit me.



If it pleases you, Kindly send me your full contact informations, so that i will submit it to the Bank and introduce you as the rightful foreign partner/beneficiary of the money. I will give you 20% for assisting me and you will also assist me to invest the rest in the areas i will instruct you later and to help the less privilege and orphans.



I want you to promise me that you will not betray me after the security company might have released the fund to you as my late husband's foreign partner.



Best regard.

Madam Fatou Mbaye Sankoh




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