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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: Miss Sua Sada <glorywilliams9@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: Miss Sua Sada <sua.sada12@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 21:32:50 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Greetings From Miss. Sua Sada,


Greetings From Miss. Sua Sada,

I
know this mail may come to you as a surprise, since we have not known
or written before.I am Introducing myself, I am Miss Sua Sada, 22years
of age the only daugther of the late Mr and Mrs David Sada. My father
used to  working under the UN in (West Africa), unfortunately he raninto
some rabels and was killed together with my mother.

Beforethe
death of my father on 29th June 2007 in a private hospital here. He
secretly called me on his bed side and told me that he has a huge sum of
money deposited in a Bank here in West Africa, that he used my name as
his only daugther for the next cof kin in depositing the fund.

Healso
explained to me that this money was meant for my education and some
other charity works(motherless babies home and orphan), that I should
seek for a foreign partner in a country of my choice where I will
transfer this money and use it for in vestment purpose such as te
mention projects above.

Please I am humbly seeking your
assistance in the following ways: 1-To assist me get this fund out from
the bank and providing an account of yours where this fund can quietly
be transferred into. 2- To serve as the guardian of this fund since I am
still an undergraduate. 3-To make arrangement for me to come over to
yourcountry to further my education, securea residential permit in your
country and also complete the above project.

Moreover,I am
willing to offer you 15% of the total sum as compensation for your
effort/input after thesuccessful transfer of this fund into your
nominated account overseas, while 5%will be set aside to offset any
expenses that may incure.Furthermore,you can indicate your option
towards assisting me as I believe that this transaction would be
concluded within the shortest possible time if you signify interest to
assist me.

Yours sinc erely,

Miss Sua Sada 

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