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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: Shula Mbule <smbul00@yahoo.fr>
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 23:35:09 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Hello dear good evening


Hello dear good evening
How are you'  I hope you're fine and in good health i pray.
I am Miss Shula  from Congo Africa. please I'm sincere and honest
writing to you this letter to seek your assistance in good faith. Truly
it is hard to trust people nowadays. but please I am honest person and
kindly believe me, I truly want to live and invest in your country for my safe reasons and for my better
future. I am under threat and fear of my
life here in Africa since my
father was assassinated by hired thugs on his return from meeting, 

Also since after the burial of my
father,  i am having problem with my uncle, he engage with village land
agents and sold  my father Farm land  property,
thinking that i am too young to ask him about it, he also said that i am
a female child that i have no right to my father properties and he plan
to proposed me for early marriage to a man i never know in my life. he
just want to frustrate me, but near
neighbors advise me not to talk to him yet for my safety, that i should
seek legal authority to stop him threaten on me and
stop his actions over my late father properties.

But for now the most important
reason that makes me to contact you is this, I need your honest help
now, there are  funds my father secured  outside my country for his farming project, and 
he deposited this money with my name as beneficiary and this money was
in Euro money, Total amount of  Eleven million five hundred thousand
euro money,

Dear Please I want
you to know that any thing concern this money, my Uncle Mr Alex  don,t
know about it and i would never want him to know it in his life, because my
father told me every thing about this money and warn me to keep every
thing about this money secret, this is why i don,t want any one here in
Africa to know any of my movements till i leave out of Africa to your
country for my stay.

Also i would prefer you to  come Africa and
see the documents by your self and to know me very well and trust my
honest to you,  then we can  travel back together to your  country after
meeting  the bank  director face to face and direct them  to transfer
all my father money to your accounts in your country for my future
investments which should be in your control till i finished my education
in your country,
But If you don't have chance to come Africa now/ please you let me know
so that i
can send the documents  to you by email or by Fax so that you will see
it and confirm it first, then you stand as family
friend outside Africa and send mail to the bank and advise them to
transfer all my late father money to your bank account in your country
and as soon
as all my father money is  transferred to your position, i leave Africa
to join you there and start new life.
I would enjoy having the opportunity to talk with you more
about this issue if you wouldn't mind to send me your direct phone
number. thank you for taking your time reading  my request and I look forward to your reply soon.Sincerely
Miss Shula

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