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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: "dona alisa" <alisa_dona03@norilsk.biz>
Reply-To: sisteralisadona01@hotmail.fr
Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 06:05:48 +0100
Subject: I NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE.


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 body overseas,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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