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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: penda oscar <ppenda12@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: ppendal2@yahoo.fr
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 07:34:13 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Hello Dear, Good day


Hello Dear, Good day
How are you and your family ? my greetings to you all.

Please read this my letter to you well and reply me back with your advise, I am really in danger here in Africa since i lost
my father, this has been the most challenging, painful, heartbreaking, experience I have ever had to face in my life.

My father same blood brother is very wicked to me now threaten me with
bad words and wanted to control every property of my father because am
the only child daughter my father born. all his actions is to  scare me
away out of my late
father properties, of which I am not even after my father properties at
this moment. i need my life safe for now in a better country.


I want to discuss confidential matter with you that involves huge amount
of
money my father deposited in a bank outside my country,it was top secret
to only me and my father which is now dead. please advise me on what to
do with this money,
I don't know if you will be chanced to visit me here in Africa and
for you to know me well,  so that both of us will meet the bank director where my father
deposited his money, Worth's millions of Euro money, only me knows about this Money, my late father brother 
don't know about this money in the bank.


The reason i want us to meet face to face is to show you all the original documents of the deposit
that cover this money so that you will trust and believe me and we meet
the bank and advise them to transfer all my father money to your
accounts in your country for my future, more so i will like to
discuss and agree with you how much money I will give you from this money for helping me
after the money is secured to your accounts.

but if you don't have time to come now, you let me know, so that I will
email you the contacts of the bank for you to contact the bank and confirm from them first about this my father funds
deposited in their bank then you know my sincerity before helping me. 
the only help i need from you is for you to stand by me as family friend
live abroad then you  provide me valid account where the bank will
transfer all the money to.

Send me your direct phone number to call and
speak with you.
I am waiting for your reply and feel free to ask any thing you need to
know about this situation.
Sorry for my English, but i can write and speak French well than English.I learn English at school.

Thanks from.

Penda





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