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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: "Clinton A Jones" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <a.jonesclinton@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2010 09:45:13 +0100
Subject: RE.I NEED YOUR HELP

Dearest

How are life with you? I hope that after you read this message, you
would be able to assist me finish this business. Let me begin by introducing
myself. my name is Clinton , I am 22 years old son of the late Chief Gen.
Jerry kuta jones, my dead father was the chief of admin and finance, Togo
Army headquaters from 1993 to 1998, my father just died 4 months ago.
I am actually alone because i had eariler lost my mother when i was 17
years old. I have no brother or sister so i am actiually the only child of
my dead parents. ( I am an orhange) Sir, two days before my father died, he
called me and handed over a box containing some thing that looked like black
paper cut to the size of money, He told me that the box actually containued
US Dollar Bills, that was defaced to aviod it from being detected during its
movement outside Togo, Sir, you may think i am playing but my father
actually told me how almost all serving military officers and government
officials used this way of taking money outside TOGO. My father also gave me
the name and address of the man who normally washes of the chemical used to
darken the Dollar bills, i went his address in Ghana only to be told that he
too had died of lungs cancer, at the beggining of this year,Right now, i am
really in a fix as i have no where to deposit this money, In the box, i have Dollar bills ( darkened to avoid instant usage) worth $10million
Dollars, and a small bottle labelled -: (CCDC#667B2c) this chemical is
actually the left over of the Dollar bill with this chemical and everything
actually saving the remaining chemical so that when you show your interest,
i could actually send you the sample by DHL COURIER SERVICE or UPS COURIER
so you too could actually wash it yourself and see that i mean businss.

please, i would need you to help me so that this money could be
moved outside my country and lodged in a bank, also, would like you to
arrange for a well known chemist who could arrange for this Dollar bills to
be defaced so we can start to spend them, please note that this Dollar bills
are original US Dollar bills that was covered with a certain chemical so
that as soon as it gets to its destination, another high octane chemical
would be used to remove this chemical so it now comes back to its orginal
sate.
Please, I am just a 22yrs old boy who has little or no knowledge about money or
even investment as much as you do .so you would act as my businss partner
and advicer. Due to my age, i have decided to contact my late fathers
lawyer, his name is Mr Michael Asante, Please in your next email do send your
telephone and fax so he could call you and really find out if you are able
and trustworthy to help me .I dont want to fall into wronghands I have told
my lawyer that i am going to give you $ 2.2 million Dollar if you can assist
me. so sir i plead that you send your contact address where we can send you
a sample of the Dollar ($50 ) and the remaining chemical and the direction
on how to wash off the chemical from the Dollar bill, then you can spend it.
Please sir, i hope you would not want to cheat me due to my age because i am
going to come to your country to begin another life.
The chemical that is left the box has the following tag on it ( CCDC#66732c)
then it has on the top of the bottle the following tag .

Finally, please, i want to send you a sample of $50 Dollars and the remaining
chemical so you would know i am serious. you can even go ahead and spend the
money after you would have washed off the dark face on the original Dollar.
when my lawyer ( Mr peter) calls you, please dont feel ambarrased due to
the question he might ask you, he just want to make sure you would not treat
me bad when after we washed the $10million Dollars, then money would be in
your account. Please, i would wait your email and please reply me
through this email address: thank you for your interest.

Regards
Yours Faithful Son
Clinton A Jones. please you can also call me on my mobile 00233242382013 and you can also send me an email to my other email is attar_clinton@yahoo.com.

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