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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: Mr george mylifehope <george_mylifehope555@live.fr>
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:01:43 GMT
Subject: With due respect to your person

With due respect to your person
ATT! Dear Friend,
With due respect to you and With much sincerity of purpose I make this
contact with you as I believe that you can be of great assistance to me,but first
let me introduce myself.
My name is MR GEORGE YUSUF, a 41 years old western educated man, from the Republic of BURKINA FASO,West Africa.Presently i work with the (IGAME) UNDER MINISTRY OF MINES AND ENERGY BURKINA FASO as the GENERAL SECRETARY TO THE CONRACT AWARDING COMMITTEE "CAC" in charge of foreign contractors contracts and payment. I am contacting you to seek for your assistance and possibly to share this great oppurtunity together,you may wonder why and how ,but there is a way which will let us authorized bank to pay you as one of the sub contractors without any exposure or hindrance,partnership for investment purposes in your country.It has always been my mind to plan for the future of my family in a country like yours where there is a free society.As you are aware,I am from a african country where senior ministry and government officials make deals and influence contract sum and in return collect back "ADDITION" from the contractors depending on the agreement between the two parties in the contract deed.Should you sincerely make up your mind to assist and also cooperate with me fully to actualize my dream;I promise you will never regret knowing me,moreover knowing someone is a matter of a day and i think as we move futher we can then trust each other as a one family.
To enable us discuss further on how you can fully render assistance kindly get back to me as soon as you recieve my message for more clearification,since the contract has been executed and the initial contractors has already received their payment remaining the total sum which was influenced through the invoice as our own gain and oppurtunity Thank you very much for your anticipated cooperation,as soon as i received your green light,i will give you information and all modalities to process the application and claiming.



YOUR INFORMATIONS NEEDED BELOW.



Name.....
Age .....
Country.....
Occupation....
Cell phone no.....



Sincerely,



MR GEORGE YUSUF.


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