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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: "vincent camara" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <camaravincent1@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 17:03:01 +0100
Subject: VERY IMPORTANT AND URGENT


Dear Beloved,

How are you and your family? I pray that you receive this email in good condition.

First and foremost, I must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction and i pray my decision to contact you will be given genuine approval considering the fact that we have not met you before.

I am Vincent Camara from Sudan, East Africa .I write to inform you my desire to invest in your country. I am the son of Alhaji Ahmed Camara who was a diamond and gold merchant in my country.

My Parent had a bullet shot by the rebels in my country during the crisis and before they died, my father revealed to me and my younger sister where he deposited $14,000.000.00(Fourteen million US dollars) in two different boxes, 7 million in each in a security vault in Ghana, presently i and my sister are here in Ghana to notify the security people for the claims, and we are now staying in Ghana.

Our consignments is now in the Airport for shipment now, if you are ready to help us and received the consignments and invest the money for us, then we will transfer the consignments to you as soon as possible. we have arrange with a diplomat who will help us transfer the consignments out of the country.

My late parent told us that it is dangerous to invest this money in Africa to avoid suspicions, and due to market instability coupled with economic and political instability facing African countries, that is why we want to invest in abroad.

For your mutual assistance, I and my sister have agreed to offer you 40% of the total money and we have all the vital documents covering these consignments.

Note: I have never disclosed this to any body apart from you, so you have to keep this transaction as a top secret.
Please reply via this email:camaravincent1@gmail.com

If you agreed to help us i will go and inform Our lawyer that i have got somebody who will stand for us in abroad so that he will transfer the consignments to you in your country and please reply us and don`t disappoint us we really want to leave Africa and invest our money Abroad. May God bless you.

Best regards.

Vincent Camara.


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