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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: Alima Abbas <alimaabbas1@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 22:17:16 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: HELLO DEAREST


Hello Dear,
I am miss, Alima Abbas, 23 years
old, a medical student, my father of blessed memory by name late Mr. Abbas
Takana who was the  manager with CNPC oil company at the Khartoum refinery in
Sudan, was killed along side with my beloved mother and our family house burnt
down by the rebels during the last crisis in my countryi am now writing you from
Bobo-Dioulasso Burkina-Faso where i escaped through road, and now seeking asylum
in a private charity organization under St Johns Church here in Bobo-Dioulasso
Burkina-Faso, you can find more of my story through the following site on the
net
 
bbc news http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6469857.stm
 
so i am now in search of an honest and reliable person
who will help to relocate me in any of the western world for a better life and
to continue my studies, i have chosen to contact you after going through your
profile and i believe you are a reliable person who will not let me down or
betray my trust i know you may wonder why i am so soon telling you about all
this, even without seeing or knowing you fully well, really something in me
tells me that you are a good person and i guess i am not wrong.
briefly i
will like to disclose little more about myself to you and see if you can help to
relocate to your country so as to continue with my studies and have a new life,
and please this is a little secrete and i plead with you to keep it to yourself
alone until everything is properly arranged and executed, then i will come over
to join you in your country
 
i have the sum of ( Five Million Four
Hundred Thousand Dollars ) $5.4 Million as an inheritance from my late father
which i will like to invest in your country with your help, the reason why i
need your help is based on the instruction my late father gave to the bank to
release the fund to me at the age of 23 through a foreigner who can help me to
invest the fund wisely, and it has been my father’s desire for me to marry a
foreigner, so the bank will not release the fund to me without the help of a
foreigner as my father instructed the bank
 
this fund is deposited in my
late father's bank account with one of the banks here in Burkina-Faso and i am
going to give you all the details / contact because i want the money to be
transferred to your account before i come over to join you in your country, i
need your urgent answer of your ability to handle this for me so that i will
tell you the next step because i want to leave this refugee camp as soon as
possible, life here is to me a hell, no love, no affection and no amenities,
more importantly, i love my studies and here nothing is happening and people
here are not friendly, i am really suffering in this place, it is too painful,
but i hope with your help to transferring the fund in your account, i will have
a better life to live
 
So kindly let me know your readiness to help me
and i promise to always be nice and faithful to you i will send you send you a
copy of mine photo as soon i receive your positive respond .
thank you and
God bless you
sincerely yours,
Alima Abbas.  
 
 



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