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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: djbigrig@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:42:59 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: this their first reply im waiting on their second one


My Dearest  Eduard

Hope everything is fine with you over there.Mine is boring
here.As you already know my name is Miss Esther Amadu,single and never
married,l am from Sudan in Africa and presently l am residing in the refugee camp here in Dakar Senegal
as a result of the civil war that broke out in my country.My late
father Dr Francis Amadu was chairman managing director(AMADU INDUSTRIAL
COMPANY LTD),in Khartoum
the capital city of Sudan,and he was also the former minister of
commerce before the rebels attacked our house one early morning and
destroy all my family members.It is only me that is alive now because l
was in school then and l managed to make my way here.
 
In this
camp we are only allowed to go out from the camp only when we have
important things to do.Its just like one staying in the prison and l
hope by Gods grace l will come out here soon.The only person we have
now is Rev.Joachim Diouf .who is the pastor of the Church here in the
camp.If you feel like calling me here is the reverend phone
number,whenever you call just tell him that you want to speak with me
and he will send for me. +221-76-48-017-01) Please listen to this,when
my father was alive he deposited some amount of money
in a leading bank  which he used my name as the next of kin,the amount
in question is $5.7(Five Million Seven Hundred Thousand US Dollars).

So
l will like you to help me transfer this money to your account and from
it you can send some money for me to get my traveling documents and air
ticket to come over to meet with you.I kept this secret to people in
this camp here the only person that knows about it is the Reverend
because he is like a father to me.
I have informed the bank about my
plans to claim this money and the only thing  they told me is to look
for a foreign partner who will  stand on my behalf due to my refugee
status and the laws of this country.You will have 15% of the total
money helping me and and 5% for any expenses that might come up in this
transfer,then the remaining money will be managed by you in any
business of your choice.
 

dang scamers --_--




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