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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: Nena Donald <nena_donald05@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: nena_donald5@yahoo.fr
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:05:38 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Hello Dear


 
Hello Dear,
 
Please allow me to introduce myself to you, i am Miss Nena Donald the only daughter of my parents, my father and mother are dead, they died as a result of war in my country sierra Leone, in west Africa. as a matter of fact, my father was a director of Sierra Leone an oil mining INC., before my father was killed, he told me that he deposited the sum of $10.000.000 (ten million USD ) in a private bank here in Abidjan IVORY COAST .
 
He said that he deposited the money to be an inheritance for me in case of emergency or death, which he handed over to me all information that i need to know regarding the deposit fund which is in the bank for now, Now i have succeeded in locating the bank in Abidjan Ivory Coast and the international remittance director told me that i do not have an access to the fund because of how it was deposited and the only way i could access my late father's account is by providing to them my foreign partners address and contact information so they can contact him/her for the immediate transfer of this fund to his/her account abroad, after they might have finish doing some legal procedures for my inheritance fund transfer .
 
My Dear this has been a problem to me because i don't know any one abroad, i have even been under going through sufferings because i lost my parents, now i am contacting you to stand for me as my foreign partner to enable the bank transfers this money into your account , so i can join u over there to finish my education, while you help me invest the money over there in your country, i am willing to offer you the 15% of the total money for your help, please help me it is easy and legal to do this with me, i promise to give you all the information you need for helping me out with my plight.
 
Waiting to hear from youn
Yours Nena



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