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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: albert_britta2001@yahoo.com.sg
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 07:48:07 +0800 (CST)
Subject: FROM BRITTA


My Dear

I am Miss Britta Albert,

the legitimate daughter of the Director salesman of cocoa in official list of Ivory ( west AFRICA) murdered by the rebelles here.
During the exercise of his mandate, my father had deposited a metal suitcase with a recognise security company here containing the sum of 9,000.000m USD (Nine million dollars USD) To allow him to conceive a project of investment at the end of his mandate here.

Today my major concern is to transfer this sum outside here. Given that I am the only child and I have seriously suffered from the raggings and the harassments on behalf of the political opponents of my Father.It is in this prospect that I contact you for you to help me sincerely to remove this legacy from the security company.
I shall voluntarily agree on a good and appropriate percentage of this money as your compensation for your assistant as for what precedes.

I look forward to recive your responds.

Yours sincerely

Miss .Britta Albert



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