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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: Silvia Idris <idrissilvia@yahoo.com.ph>
Reply-To: idris.silvia@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 04:58:47 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: IDRIS SILVIA INVESTMENT CONSULTANTS GHANA .




IDRIS SILVIA
INVESTMENT CONSULTANTS
GHANA
 .
 
My name is IDRIS SILVIA. I am an investment consultant based here in Ghana .I have a client who is a widow and who wants to invest in your country about US$18.2million ( EIGHTEEN MILLION TWO  HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS ONLY ).
 
My client is from KENYA and her late husband was a former cabinet minister in the government of president KIBAKI of Kenya who was murdered during   political crises in Kenya .
 
Before the death of her husband, he concealed this money ( US$18.2million ) inside a trunk box and with his government connections, he moved the  trunk box containing this money into Ghana and deposited the box with a private security trust firm and he declared to the  security firm that the trunk box contained family personal valuables. The private security firm did not know that the trunk box contained money. Now, because of his death, her wife (THE WIDOW) wants to move this money out of here for investment into real estate of your country or into any other valuable ventures. This is necessary because she can not bring the money back to Kenya for obvious reasons.
 
If you can help her move this money out of here into your country, please get back to me as soon as possible so that we can discuss in details the modalities and how best to move the money into your country for investment.
 
For your assistance, she will give you US$4MILLION (FOUR MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS). I am waiting for your urgent reply through this email address ( idrissilvia@yahoo.com.ph ) ONLY if you are interested  but if you can not handle this transaction, kindly do not reply this letter.
 
Yours Sincerely,
IDRIS SILVIA .


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