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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: amichiaassana02@zipmail.com.br
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 05:22:12 -0300
Subject: madam amichia and daughter jemima


 
 
 Is me Amichia,
 
 
 
 Hi dear, salaam and happy ramadan kareem,
i decided to tell you all about me because i have no other thing to hide for than to open up to oyu because i love you
we have not met before or known each other in one way or the other and I really have interest to marry a new

husband who can invest and relocate to your country as i have planned it already before now.

i decided to come down to your country with my daughter and invest .   desperately i have been passing through

critical life style since my husband died and i decided to share out my problem to you as an expert in Transaction,

my husband was into real estate biz with some foriegners who came here back in the days, my husband love to

invest money, he never slacks in biz and that was where i my self learn because i was clever enough to pick from him

after he died in 2010.
i am very much intrested to make sure i am dealing with you directly as my future husband and foriegn partner,

because my husbands relations and friends are after me ever since he died, so many things they gain from him

when he was alife is no longer in existance, they sold out some empty lands from behind without telling me which i

drew them to court and the won because it is there country and i am woman.

luckily for me as the wife, after one month + he died, i decided to clean up the room and keep all his things in one

different wardrope and along the line, i saw a Box containing Huge amount of Gold in different forms and was very

heavy type, i secretly make plans and sold all  and got $14.7M i sold out from all the Gold as i am writing to you, and

all in United States Dollars Currency cash that I'll like you to secure for me as i have decided to come over to your

country and inv est with this money with my only daughter.

so i took all the money to International Federation of Red Cross Security Company here where my late husband

always secure and do some shipment of hard copies documents and others, for the past three years as i am writing

you, the money is been well secured and waiting for me any day i decided to transfer it out from here and over here

so many rich people make of security company because of so many stories bank tells mostly when ever there is a

litle misunderstanding in the country.

hi love,
since my husband died and did not enjoyed his wealth before he died, sometimes i see him in my dreams telling me

to leave his country and go to another country to invest and take good care of jimaia, that his relation might kill me

which is true, the last time i saw him before i decided to contact you is when he told me to sell the property at no 2

San pedro villa here in abouso,the property have been for sale even before he died, but presently as i am am writing

you the brothers and relations will not alow me to sale off the house.
i prefer coming down to your country because it is a fast growing economy country and i will like you to keep every

information i told you about me as one among your top secret, I know and believe that a good relationship can

always be built with trust irrespective of tribes,location or sex and to be honestly with you, I've limited time before

arranging for my visa ,
and my daughter, but you have to direct me because i have not travelled before and i put all my trust in you,


i will like to know some other things about you and you likse and dislikes as we procced and please let me know if me

and my daughter can have confidence and trust in you as my foriegn partner because i dont know what to do with

this huge amount of money rather to look for an expert like you who can dierect me on how to make good use of this

money and invest it in the right way before i re-marry.
here is my private phone number, +22556427442, i prefer you send me text message before you call me because of

people around me and i dont want them to know my plan.

Have a nice time.
Insha Allah
madam amichia and daughter jemima


 

 

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