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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: "Rita Zito" (may be fake)
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 13:33:39 +0100
Subject: Hello Dear

Hello Dear,

I am Master Zito Beavogui i am 21 years old and my sister is Miss Rita Beavogui she is 18 years old, we are the children of former head Chairman of Sierra-Leon Gold & Diamond Mining, We call you for assistant to please help us and invest the sum of ($27.5 Million USD) which our father deposited in a security firm here in Cote d' Ivoire before he died. Note, the funds were deposited by our late father in a Security Company for Security reasons and it is sealed as a bonds worth of ($27.5 Million USD)

We will send to you all the necessary documents that will mandate you to assist us to claim this fund from the security deposit bonds, as the sole beneficiary of the security deposit bonds. Please why we contacted you is because it is only a foreign business partner to our late father can be able to cliam this fund in our favor but because we did not know our late fathers foreign partner so that is why we contacted you to please come to help us as our late father's partner we will give you all the informations you need to know about our father and about this fund when we get your reply.

Please if you are willing to assist us, kindly email us back so that we will proceed immediately. After all is been done, you will help us to invest the fund in your country why i and my sister continue our Education in your country why you will be the head of the investment untill we are through from School.

We believe you must have heard about our father's death and this will not come to you as a surprise but please try and understand exactly what we are talking about. We look forward for your kind update. Please email us your willing to proceed.

Healthy regards,

Thanks and God bless you.

Zito & Rita Beavogui,

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