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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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Fraud email example:

From: "david" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mrscelinadavidnkomo@live.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 22:36:27 +0100
Subject: DEAR BELOVED FRIEND,

DEAR BELOVED FRIEND,

My name is MRS. CELLINA JOSEPH DAVID the wife of Mr David Nkomo of
Zimbabwe. This might be a surprise to you about where I got your contact
address. I got your address through the internet when I was
searching for who will assist me out of this suffering. During the
current war against the farmers in Zimbabwe from the supports of our
President Robert Mugabe to claim all the white-owned farms to his party
members and his followers, he ordered all white farmers to surrender all
their farms to his party members and his followers.
Please visit this sit

http://rhodesian.server101.com/white_farmer_murdered.htm
My Husband is one of the best farmers in our country, and the President to
the Farmers associations in Zimbabwe. And because he did not support
Mugabe's ideas, Mugabe's supporters invaded my Husband farm and burnt
everything in the farm, and killed my Husband and made away with a lot of
items in my Husbands farm. Before his death, my Husband had deposited with
one of the Security Company in LONDON the sum of US$18.5 Million Dollars
(Eighteen million five hundred Thousand united state Dollars).
After the death of my Husband, we decided to move to COTONOU BENIN
REPUBLIC WEST AFRICA presently the funds is deposited in the Security
Company in SPAIN as a family valuables.

So I decided to contact overseas firm/individual and companies that will
assist me to move this money out of the finance company abroad because as
asylum seekers we are not allowed to operate any bank account within
COTONOU, even to do any business is not allowed.

We have agreed to offer you 40% of the total sum for your assistance, 10%
will be mapped out for any expenses that may be incurred in the course of
this transaction and 50% will be for me and my family to invest in you
country. All I want you to do is to furnish me with your direct Cell phone
and fax numbers indicating your full mailing address for easy
communication and Your home and work address, and any form of your
identification, like drivers licence or photocopy of your international
passport. Note that this transaction is legit, and 100%
risk-free and it requires, absolutely confidential.
Best Regards,
MRS CELLINA JOSEPH DAVID

PLEASE LET AL
L YOUR CORRESPONDENTS BE ON MY PERSONAL EMAIL ADDRESS.mrscelinadavidnkomo@live.com
Please This email require your urgent attention

FROM MRS CELLINA JOSEPH DAVID.

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