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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: "Suma" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <tomandmum@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 21:18:16 +0300
Subject: Can you be of help to us??? 06/07/2010

Good day,

Is my pleasure to writing you this letter, hope you are fine? Please don't feel embarrassed as i know you do not know my family but do permit me to introduce myself. I am Thomas Suma and i am 25yrs old, the son of Late Chief Kambi Suma who was killed during military junta in Sierra Leone.

I write you in respect of our consignment fund moved into the New York, US through the security company some weeks ago.

Right now the consignment is in New York, under the care of the delivery diplomat; we want you to assist us to stand as our new beneficiary to receive our fund over there in your country. This fund was deposited by my late father as family valuable in a consignment box with a security company. After the death of my father, we were advise to transfer the consignment out of Africa and for that reason we got in contact with Mr. Carlos Padros who agreed to receive it on behalf and also assist us to come over to the USA for investment of the money into real estate which he suggested because Mr. Padros was a real estate broker but to our amazement when the package now arrived in the US, Mr. Carlos started demanding for 60% of the money that were things involve he needs to take care of we do not know and he never mentioned this things he needs to take of. All these was not our initial agreement, so for that reason my mother and i did not agree anymore with him and the best thing is
to stop the delivery as we can no

Now we need someone that will assist us to receive these consignment as beneficiary as the security company has agreed to deliver to anywhere our new beneficiary may want it. We have all necessary documents are in our possession which i will send to you the moment i hear from you confirming your readiness because we want to move the consignment quickly out of the airport before we lose it and we need your help.

We are prepared to give you 20% of the money for your assistance as that was our initial agreement with Carlos Padros, before his change of mind due to greed.

Waiting you for your anticipated co-operation, in your reply indicate your physical address, telephone number and your passport and we shall respond back to you details. Please send your response through this email address so that my mother and i will get back to you with details.

Best Regards,

Thomas Suma and Mum

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