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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: MUS ABUDULLAH <mus.abudullah@btinternet.com>
Reply-To: musaabudullah2010@yahoo.cn
Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 12:53:30 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Aslamo Alaikum,



Aslamo Alaikum,

 
It is my pleasure to write you after consideration, since I can not
be able to see you face to face, at first, please I need your help. I am Musa
Abdullah, the only Son of late Mr & Mrs Muhammed Abdullah, from Sierra-Leone  (I am
22years of age.) My father was a liability Cocoa and Gold merchant in Sierra-Leone  before his
untimely death. After his business trip to Tunisia, to
nagociate on a cocoa and gold business he wanted to invest in Tunisia, a week
after he came back from Tunisia, he got an accident with my mother of which my
mother died instantly but my father died five days after in a private hospital.
On that faithful afternoon, I didnt know that my father was going to leave me
after I had earlier lost my mother, but before he gave up the ghost, it was as
if he knew he was going to die. He my father, (MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PERFECT
PEACE) he called me to his bed side and told me that he deposited the sum of
($9,000.000.00) Nine Million,United
State Dollars.  in a bank in Cote D'Ivoire.

That the money was
meant for his cocoa and Gold business he wanted to establish in Tunisia,
according to my father he deposited the money in a fixed suspense account
using my name as the next of kin, He instructed me to seek for a reliable and
trust worthy business partner for my life time investment abroad. Now I have
succeeded in locating the deposit documents and the bank where this money is in
Abidjan,
Cote D'Ivoire. Due to political problem in our country I am Now
seeking for your assistance to help me transfer this money out from this country
Cote D'Ivoire to your account abroad so that we should invest it in any
meaningful and lucrative business in your country because this is my only hope
in life. I am willing to offer you 20% of the total fund if only you can help me
out of my present predicame.

I seek your assistance in the follwing
ways:

(1.) To provide a bank account where this money can be transfered
into.
(2.) To make arrangements for me to come over to your country after the
successful transfering of this money into your account, to come and further my
education.
(3.) To help invest this money in a profitable
business since I am only 22yrs of age and do not know much about
business.
(4)  To sponsor me transfer this money into your account to help
me pay for all the trasaction charges and for all the documents that will be
needed from the bank and that is the reason why i promise to offer you 20% out
of the total found.
(5). I want you to promise me that you are not going to
betray me after the money gets into your account.

The worst part of it is
that my uncle is trying to kill me over this money because I refused to hand him
over the documents covering this money, He has sold all my father's landed
properties including his cars which rightful belong to me and now he want me to
hand over the banking document of my father in my possesion which I refused. Now
he said that he will have this money by all means even if it means killing me,
so because of this I ran away from our country Sierra-Leone
i am now in Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire were the money is deposit
and hide in a hotel,pending when this money will be transfered so
that I can leave the country for my safty Please reply
me  

Thank's and God bless you.


Yours sincerely, 
Musa Abdullah

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