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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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Fraud email example:

From: Blessing Soumah <soumahblessing40@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:38:22 -0800 (PST)
Subject: HONEY THIS IS SECRET LIFE AND EVERYTHING PLEASE KEEP IT TO YOURSELF


Hello My Dearest,
  I am more than happy in your reply to my mail How
are you today? How was your day, hope fine. as for me, loneliness have
been my friend over here in Dakar
Senegal.
In this camp we don't allowed
to go out from the camp any how sometimes we used to take permission
.Its just like one staying in the prison and i hope by Gods grace i will
come out here soon.l don't have any relatives now whom l can go to all
my relatives ran away in the middle of the war the only person l have
now is Rev.Peter Gabriel  who is the pastor of the (Christ for all
Churches) here in the camp he has been very nice to me since i came here
but i am not living with him rather i am leaving in the women hostel
because the camp have two hostels one for men the other for women.
 
The


















































Pastor's Phone number is ( +221- 762975974 ) if you call tell him
that you want to speak with Miss blessing Soumah from Darfur
Sudan
,he
will
send for
me in the hostel. As a refugee here i don't have any right or privilege
to any thing be it money or whatever because it is against the law of
this country.I want to go back to my studies because i only attended my
first year before the tragic incident that lead to my being in this
situation now took place.
 
Please listen to this,i have my late
father's deposit certificate and death certificate here with me which i
will send to you later,because when he was alive he deposited some
amount of money in a bank  which he used my name as the next of kin,the
amount in question is $4.800,000.(Four Million Eight Hundred thousand US
Dollars). So i will like you to help me transfer this money to your
account and from it you can send some money for me to get my traveling
documents and air ticket to come over to meet with you.I kept this
secret to people in the camp
here the only person that knows about it is the Reverend because he is
like a father to me.
So in the light of above i will like you to keep
it to yourself and don't tell it to anyone for i am afraid of loosing
my life and the money if people gets to know about it.
Honey i want
to have your full information's such as;
your full
name........................
address.............................
phone


















































number...................
As soon as i have all this information's i
will give you the bank contact where the money was deposited for you to
contact them on my behalf for the transfer.
 
Remember i am
giving you all this information due to the trust i deposed on you.I like
honest and understanding people,truthful and a man of vision,truth and
hard working who can invest this money wisely.My favorite language is
English l speak it very fluently.Meanwhile i will like you to call me
like i said i have a lot to tell you. Have a nice
day and think about me.
Awaiting to hear from you
blessing

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