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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: "martinwilliam@cantv.net" <martinwilliam@cantv.net>
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 14:53:54 -0430
Subject: IS VERY URGENT BECAUSE OF OUR CONDITION HERE

From Martin William
Rue 6 BP 01Cocody Refugee Camp,
Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire,
 
Good day
 
 l am sending you this letter so that you can undersand me l am a Sierra-Leonean nationality; my name is Prince Martin William, the only son of Late Professor.lbrahim B. William,My father has one of the biggest gold and diamond mining company in Liberia and Sierra-Leone; he was an opposition party to the Liberian government as well during Mr. Charles Taylor, before the war finally came out Before my father was killed, he deposited some huge amount of  money here in Cote d'Ivoire with a security company, amount to USD10.7 million dollars, including gold diamond worth about 750,000 us dollars.
 l and my only sister are seeking refugee here and we purposely came
so that we can claim our inheritance, which is our right. l have try worked out the arrangements of getting this properties to be taken out of Africa to  your country, we have already appear before the law court for a legitimate arrangement.
The court has granted us order to get what belong to us, but we need your assistance to stand as the beneficiary so that you can receive the properties on our behalf in your country. 

All l need from you is your trust, your reliability and trustworthy concerning this property, because this is only what left
for us in our life all my father' s properties in liberia are seized, this is the only thing left for us, we need a good person that will be to us like father or mother and we hope you will take us like
your children . the fund will be transfer to you through bank to bank and the gold will be transfer through diplomatic courier services.

As soon as you receive the properties, we will make agreement on  how to invest the money into a good business that will be profitable in the future, the gold and diemond will be sold under your advice for the benefit of us. we have it in mind to give you 25percent of the propeties as soon as the proerties arrived in your country.

 We are counting on you and looking forward to hearing
from you quickly.
Reply me throgh my email above.
Thanks and God  Bless you.
 Yours faithfully,
   Prince Martin William.

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