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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!

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Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: williamsamani2001@yahoo.fr
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 01:29:41 +0800 (CST)
Subject: From Prince Williams Amani/Appeal for Assistance.


From Prince Williams Amani/Appeal for Assistance. Refugee Camp, 23 Rue Des Republicain,
Koumassi 17 bp.1246 Abidjan 17
Abidjan-Cote D'ivoire
Dearest one (Foreign Investment Project Assistant)
Devine Greeting to you, I’m Prince Williams Amani 19yrs old student from Sierra Leone .
It is my pleasure to contact you for help in investing my inheritance in your country for my security through your financial support to me as a foreign business partner to my late father to open a new joint foreign account or provide a valid account to retrieve this suspense deposit funds with a bank here in Abidjan, for my identification, I am the surviving son of the late Chief Venantius L.Amani, my late father was poisoned to death while in detention by the ruling government after he was accused of lifting large quantity of crude without proper account to the government of sierra Leone. I came across your contact while searching for investment opportunity where to secure and put this funds into for security purposes to avoid government eye on it because my late father, I read about your business firm and wishes to contact you to stand as my appointed beneficiary/trustee to my late father’s bank for the release of my inheritance which was already drafted for
onward transfer by my late before he was arrested and poisoned, his arrest was suspected to be linked by his wicked brothers who took bribe and now they are planning to kill in other to claim my late father's properties that belongs to me now. My late father before he died owes a shipping vessel company which he and deposited the sum (US$18, 300,000.00) for foreign investment project with one of the bank here in Cote d'Ivoire where I am presently purposely for this funds, my father has drafted this funds for foreign investment project before he died suddenly and now this draft is still with this banks and has been approved to be paid via master card of my choice in overseas, Please i am requesting for your help to serve as my guardian beneficiary who will receive this funds for me, I have prayed before contacting you with the trust that you will help me with my situation, since it will be profitable to you in future, I’m seeking for your assistance in contacting
the bank as my beneficiary to enable the bank to credit this funds to a foreign master card account. I have submitted the deposit certificates of this funds and my identity as instructed by my late father to this bank, and they informed me what will be required for the release of this funds by which we have to legalised and normalise this documents at the judicial court and embassy for security and recording purposes, you will be entitled to profit 20% of this funds which will be under your management until i grew up. This bank has informed me that this payment will be paid via swift atm transfer to a foreign account and it is 100% risk free, that all required to is to open a non resident domiciliary checking account into my beneficiary names in other to do the change of ownership and download the draft with your name into an atm master card, and i believe this project will lead us to a good relationship and partnership, all i need is your maximum assistant to
secure this funds and relocate me out of Africa because of my terrible situation and as soon as you receive this mail contact me urgently and also forward details of respond to E-mail : ( williamsamani2001@yahoo.fr) for more details as this project will be very profitable if we work together with good faith, The bank here is ready to transfer the money to the foreign account i have to open in the country where i want to relocate, Please contact me urgently because i am stranded at the moment in the camp, I would be glad if you call me to proof your interest to help my situation from here. Call me for further communication + Truly Yours Williams Amani Junior.









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