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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!

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From: john laverty <noknojon@yahoo.com.au>
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:09:31 -0800 (PST)
Subject: More


LÉIGH AGUS freagra a ME AN-práinneach / Ó Miss AKUMI Nicole.....PLEASE READ AND REPLY TO ME VERY URGENTLY/ FROM MISS NICOLE AKUMI
Monday, 21 February, 2011 10:34 AM



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óg,
Conas tá tú inniu, agus tá súil agam go bhfuil tú i sláinte maith?
i am a chailleann, Moses Nicole Akumi, Tá mé 24 bliain d'aois cailín, mac léinn leighis, tá mé ó Sead ach tá mé ag cónaí air anois i dteach carthanas anseo i Ouagadougou Buircíne Fasó
Cuir dhíth orm tú a léamh tríd an phost mar a dúirt mé rud an-tábhachtach faoi mo shaol, ionas go mbeidh a fhios agat cé mé agus mo chomh maith le dul i dteagmháil leat chun críche, agus mé ag guí beidh ort trua ar mé féin agus mo bheatha a shábháil ó mo cor reatha
Mé riamh d'fhás suas a fhios ag mo mháthair mar a fuair sí bás láithreach tar éis mo bhreith, dúirt m'athair dom, bhí nimhithe mo mháthair nuair a tháinig daoine chun ceiliúradh léi, agus mar sin bhí m'athair-feargach agus ar eagla go bhféadfadh siad a mharú orm, mar sin tar éis mo mháithreacha adhlactha, thóg m'athair dom agus athlonnú go Mailí, tá mo athair ainm déanach Moses Mr Akumi, bhí m'athair fear gnó, déileálann sé ar chloch aoil i Buircíne Fasó, agus taisteal chuig tíortha eile dá ghnó, mar sin orm cónaí i Mailí le mo athair go dtí a bhás lena chomhpháirtí gnó agus na teaghlaigh ar a chomhpháirtí gnó i collapse ag mianach óir i Siarra Leon, le do thoil is féidir leat léamh tríd an scéal ón leathanach seo
http://mrtara.com/2010/03/20/200-killed-in-goldmine-at-bo-district-west-africa-goldmine-tragedy/
a fhios agam gur féidir leat Wonder fáth tá mé chomh luath, ag insint duit faoi seo go léir, fiú gan fhios agam go bhfaca tú go hiomlán nó go maith, deir gur rud éigin i dom dom gur féidir leat cabhrú liom agus tá sé níos fearr chun muinín agat ná go bás sa bhaile carthanachta i gcás ina Tá mé aon chomhlacht chun cabhrú liom, táim ag fulaingt san áit seo, tá a lán bás a fháil anseo mar gheall ar an easpa bia agus cógas, caoin mé lá tar éis an lá, Tá mé an-leithscéal as insint duit gach seo, ní féidir liom dócha go teorann tú leis seo go léir, ach tá mé aon chomhlacht a rá conas is dóigh liom, uaireanta fanacht liom an lá ar fad gan féachaint ar aon rud a ithe, tá sé ró-ghéar, ach is é mo ghuí go le do chabhair beidh mé ag cur le saol níos fearr le cónaí
M'athair go déanach willed agus rinne mé ar an neasghaol bosca stór i dtaisce i gcuideachta slándála a áirithiú trí a bhanc anseo i Buircíne Fasó, agus sa bhosca Treasure Tá $ 9.2 milliún (US Dollar) agus taiscfear iad i sé, cé go bhfuil an chuideachta slándála Níl a fhios agam cad é sa bhosca Treasure, ach tá a fhios ag stiúrthóir bainc mo athair gach rud faoi an bhosca Treasure toisc go raibh sé as a gcuid banc go mo athair go déanach urraithe an ciste leis an gcuideachta slándála, tá mé roinnt cáipéisí anseo a thug m'athair dom a éileamh an bosca Treasure, chuaigh mé go dtí an chuideachta slándála agus dúirt siad liom nach féidir iad a scaoileadh an bosca Treasure dom gan eachtrannach a chur i láthair mar mo athair go déanach treoir
Is é an chúis do chabhair de dhíth orm mar gheall ar an teagaisc Thug m'athair go déanach don chuideachta slándála, d'aontaigh m'athair lena chomhpháirtí gnó go mbeidh ar a leanbh amháin Eric pósadh liom, mar sin dúirt m'athair liom gur chun árachas a chara a dhílseacht i dtreo a chuid gealltanas go mbeidh a mhac Eric pósadh liom, d'ordaigh mo athair an chuideachta slándála a chur sa bhosca Treasure scaoileadh dom trí eachtrannach féidir leo cabhrú liom a bhainistiú Treasure críonna, mar sin anois ag Eric lena athair agus a fuair bás i mianach an tubaiste ag le mianach óir i Siarra Leon nach féidir leis an gcuideachta scaoileadh an bosca Treasure slándála dom gan eachtrannach a chur i láthair le haghaidh an t-éileamh is m'athair go déanach treoir
Le do thoil mhaith liom tú a cabhrú liom agus fág ar feadh dom mar eachtrannach féidir leo cabhrú liom a bhainistiú go críonna Treasure ionas gur féidir leis an gcuideachta scaoileadh slándála agus an bosca Treasure a sheachadadh chun tú, agus beidh mé ag teacht thar a bheith páirteach tú i do thír féin agus a leanúint ar mo chuid staidéir agus beidh leat cabhrú liom chun infheistíocht a dhéanamh ar an gciste mar ba mhaith liom a bheith ina dhochtúir, is breá liom a bheith ina dhochtúir ionas go mbeidh mé in ann cabhrú le daoine eile a saol agus a shábháil Tá mo bhrionglóidí ó mo óige, le do thoil beidh mé cúiteamh a thabhairt tú le 15% den chiste iomlán agus beidh an chuid eile a d'infheistíocht
Le do thoil mhaith liom tú a ligean kindly dom fhios do bhfonnmhaireacht chun cabhrú liom ionas gur féidir liom aghaidh na sonraí go léir an bhosca Treasure agus chomh maith leis na teagmhála de chuid na cuideachta slándála a thabhairt duit
más rud é i ndáiríre go mbeidh tú a bheith macánta chun cabhrú liom, le do thoil i mian leat do phictiúr agus d'uimhir theileafóin a sheoladh chuig dom ionas gur féidir linn labhairt trí ghuthán agus beidh mé buíochas a éisteacht le do guth
Beidh mé ag súil a fháil do freagra a luaithe is féidir
Is mise le meas,
Nicole


ENGLISH

dearest,
How are you today, and i hope you are in good health?
i am miss, Nicole Moses Akumi, I am 24 years old girl, a medical student, I am from Chad but I am residing now in a charity home here in Ouagadougou Burkina Faso
Please I need you to read through this mail because I said something very important about my life, so that you can know who I am and also my purpose for contacting you, and I pray you will have pity on me and save my life from my present situation
I never grew up to know my mum as she died immediately after my birth, my father told me that, my mother was poisoned when people came to celebrating with her, so my father became very angry and afraid that they might kill me, so after my mothers burial, my father took me and relocated to Mali, my father’s name is late Mr. Moses Akumi, My father was a business man, he deals on lime stone in Burkina Faso, and travel to other countries for his business, so I lived in Mali with my father until his death with his business partner and the family of his business partner in a collapse at an gold mine in Sierra Leone, please you can read through the story from this page
http://mrtara.com/2010/03/20/200-killed-in-goldmine-at-bo-district-west-africa-goldmine-tragedy/
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 you can help me and it is better to trust you than to die in this charity home where I have no body to help me, I am suffering in this place, many are dying here because of lack of food and medications, I cry day after day, I am very sorry for telling you all this, I don’t suppose to border you with all this but I have no body to tell how I feel, sometimes I stay the whole day without seeing anything to eat, it is too painful, but I pray that with your help I will have a better life to live
My late father willed and also made me the next of kin of a treasure box deposited in a security company through his bank here in Burkina Faso, and in the treasure box contains $9.2 Million (US Dollars) deposited in it, though the security company do not know what is in the treasure box, but my father’s bank director knows everything about the treasure box because it was from their bank that my late father secured the fund with the security company, I have some documents here which my father gave to me to claim the treasure box, I went to the security company and they told me that they can not release the treasure box to me without presenting a foreigner as my late father instructed
the reason why I need your help is because of the instruction my late father gave to the security company, my father agreed with his business partner that his only child Eric will marry me, so my father told me that to insure his friend his faithfulness towards his promise that his son Eric will marry me, my father instructed the security company to release the treasure box to me through a foreigner who can help me to manage the treasure wisely, so now Eric has died with his father and mine in the collapse at an gold mine in Sierra Leone the security company can not release the treasure box to me without presenting a foreigner for the claim as my late father instructed
Please I want you to help me and stand for me as a foreigner who can help me to manage the treasure wisely so that the security company can release and deliver the treasure box to you, and I will come over to join you in your country and continue my studies while you will help me to invest the fund because I want to be a doctor, I love to be a doctor so that I will be able help and save others life it has been my dreams from my childhood, please I will compensate you with 15% of the total fund while the rest will be for investment
Please I want you to kindly let me know your readiness to help me so that I can forward all the details of the treasure box and also the contact of the security company to you
if really you will be honest to help me, please i want you to send your picture and your phone number to me so that we can talk through phone and i will also like to hear your voice
I will be expecting to receive your reply as soon as possible
Yours sincerely,
Nicole



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