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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: Juliet Davies <juliet.d1985@yahoo.com.sg>
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:02:20 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: WAITING FOR YOUR REPLY


Dear Friend,How are you doing?Guess you are doing very fine?My name is Juliet Davies,born on the 19th of November,1985.I am choclate in colour and I studied English Language and Literature.I am from the Republic of Liberia but have been living here in Senegal ever since the death of my parents.I came to Senegal to be able to complete my University Education as it was not possible to do so at home because of my late father's brutal killing by the government of Charles Taylor,who now faces charges of crimes against humanity at the Internation Court of Justice(ICJ) at the hague.A process I follow up too well as looking to seeing that day that Charles Taylor will be sentenced to life jail for killing my parents and many others.However,i am contacting because i need your help in a project that I will love to carry out in your country with your assistance.I am about to be given some money,deposited in a Senegalese bank here by my late Father.The sum of
$3.7Million which i will like to invest outside here as I have made up my mind to leave now and start a new life.I have been a student all my life and do not know anything about business but the little research that I carried out on the internet shows me that a lot of out there can help to invest this money into profitable investments and this is the major reason that I am contacting you.On a personal note,I love Estate business and manufacturing but I shall leave to please tell me how and what you think we can invest this money on.I have negotiated with the manager of the Bank and he assured me that moving this amount to any country economic conditions and policies,the bank will use a diplomat to deliver the money to any of contacts under the bank's close supervision and this is the reason i need your immediate reply to this email.All you need to is just to consider this proposal and get back to me.I shall give you full information concerning this as
soon as i read from you.Thanks and hope to read from you soonJuliet

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