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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: frank diallo <fra_diallo@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 01:08:18 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: PLEASE HELP ME AND MY MOTHER


Hello Dearest One,















 















Greetings to you and every members of your family,















 















I and my mother write to seek for your assistance; we got
your contact information when we where looking for a God-fearing, honest
and trustworthy person whom will help us receive our consignment boxes
as our foreign partner.















 















First and foremost I want to introduce myself to you. My
name is Frank Diallo and my mother is Rose Diallo, we are from
Sierra-Leone, our consignment boxes contains 28 million United States
dollars, the consignments are presently in United States . The
consignment got to the state through the help of a U.N diplomat, the
fact is that the Diplomat
is supposed to have delivered this consignment to my late foreign
partner called Mr.




Gerald

















Murphy
in the USA .















 















 The week the Diplomat is suppose to deliver the
consignment boxes to Mr. Gerald Murphy,
he called Mr. Gerald
Murphy to
tell him the description to his house for the delivery, but Mr. Gerald
Murphy's house help answered the call and told the Diplomat that Mr.
Gerald Murphy

hard a fatal car
accident
which lead to his death some few hours later.















 















Mr. Gerald has already paid the demurrages from the
security company, and he paid for custom check report he also assisted
us in getting the DRUG / ANTI TERRORIST CERTIFICATE, which is so
expensive that he spent 47 thousand dollars to acquire it, but
Unfortunately he died in a car accident, that was why the diplomat has
to deposit the consignment box in the state and called us to inform us
about what is happening.















 















 Please I and my mother seek for your help to get in
contact with the Diplomat so that he can deliver the box to you and
please do not mention the content of the box to the diplomat because he
only knows that the box contain family valuables. I will explain better
to you later.















 















Please, Contact the Diplomat on time and get back to me by
email or my phone number.















 















I await your urgent response.















 















Thank you and God bless you















 















Frank Diallo



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