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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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Fraud email example:

From: Investment Proposal For Charity work <mrs.samirah6@msn.com>
Reply-To: <samirah_af@yahoo.fr>
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 01:32:33 +0000
Subject: Proposal to invest on charity work.





Dear respected one,

I want you to patiently read this offer. I am Mrs. Samirah Abdullah 62years
old, the wife to the deceased former Head of Delegation to the World Bank in West Africa.
I am diagnosed with oesophageal cancer and have been hospitalized for
couple of
years now in United Kingdom. My illness has defied all forms of Medical
treatment, and right now I have very short time to live according to
the medical experts.

My
husband was the link-man between the Organization for Petroleum
Exporting Countries - OPEC and the petroleum sector in a West African
country before his untimely death 2006 caused by cardiac arrest in our
home town. We were married for 17 years without issue and were committed
to our God.

Through
the sale of our allocated oil quota in OPEC, he was able to make a fix
deposit of S$2.5.million. (Two Million Five Hundred Thousand UNITED
STATES DOLLARS)in a secured finance vault which I will disclose you of
the actual organization when I most have seen your interest and
would want you to help me if agreed utilize this cash for charities any
where in the world, I cannot do this myself any more now that my health
has badly deteriorated. Knowing my condition and believing the doctor,
have decided to donate this fund out to less privilege,
organizations, individual that will utilize this money the way I am
going to instruct herein to avoid total loss. I have decided to give
alms to charity organizations, as I want this to be one of the last good
deeds I
do
on this planet earth before anything could happen.

It
is on this basis that I am contacting you for assistance, if you will
be interested, claim documents will been processed and sent to you. The
documents with which the fund is deposited will be amended to reflect
you as the beneficiary so that you will be eligible to claim the fund.

I
took this decision because I don't have any child that will inherit
this money and my husband relatives are fighting over other the
properties already, while I once asked my husband’s immediate next to
close one of our accounts and distribute the money which he refused and
kept the money to himself. Hence, I do not trust them any more, as they
seem not to be contended with what I have left for them.

You shall be entitled to 30% of the total funds.
I am interested to use this last fund for the propagation of God work
in any form and for charity, like building Clinics, school, orphanage,
library and drilling of water for the orphans, local community, helping
also the widows, Old Aged, and people living with HIV AIDS who can not
afford to pay for health, school and foodstuff or otherwise in relation
to God work. I wouldn’t need any telephone communication
in this regard because of my health and the presence of my husband's
relatives around me always as I will not want them to know about this
development
I will
not fail to bring to your notice that this business is risk free and
doesn't have any negative
implication. If you can conveniently assure me of your ability to keep
this business very secret and confidential, you can write back to me for
further details by including your full details like:
Your full names, your full addresses, Your occupation/post and company
name, Your nationality, Your telephone and fax numbers for
administrative use.

Expecting your urgent response.

Best regards,
Mrs. Samirah Abdullah



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