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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: Gabino Salvador <gabinosalvador@vseversk.ru>
Reply-To: gabysalvado@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 08 May 2014 09:12:00 +0700
Subject: I NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE, PLEASE HELP ME.




Dearest one

Permit me to inform you of my desire to enter into business relations with
you. I know this letter may come to you as a surprise because we do not
know each other but I beg you to please trust God/Allah and trust me
because my intentions of sending you this email is good. I hope and pray
that you are a honest and sincere person and that you will be able to help
me and my little sister in this project.

My name is Gabino Salvador, the only Son of Eng Leopoldo Salvador from
Venezuela, I am 26 years, and my late father was an exporter and importer
of cocoa and oil. He was poisoned to death by his business associates on
one of his business trips. Before the death of my father, he secretly
revealed to me the sum of nine million U.S. dollars. $9,000,000.00 that he
deposited in a bank in Ivory Coast in West Africa on behalf of his foreign
business partner as the recipient of the fund.

I am seeking for your honest assistance to help me stand as the foreign
partner of my late
father and the recipient/beneficiary of this money and
provide a bank account where the money will be transferred into, the reason
I seek for your help is because of the agreement which was made between my
late father and the bank on the day he deposited the money on that
agreement my late father made it clear that the money will not be
withdrawn, it should be transferred to his foreign business partners bank
account abroad for investments purposes, but my late father did not mention
any name as his foreign business partner to the bank before he died.

I have gone to the bank and the bank told me that the money will be
transferred under the agreement of deposit they did with my late father,
they requested I should provide my late father foreign business partner in
whose bank account they are going to transfer the money. And I do not know
anybody abroad, which is why I contacted you so that you will help me in
the following ways

1 - To provide a safe foreign bank account where the
money will be
transferred into.

2) - To make arrangement for me and my little sister Aitana to come to
your country to continue our education and also invest this money in any
lucrative investment their in your country.

Before the death of my father, he asked me to pick someone from any
foreign country, someone who can not betray me or run away with the money
someone who is trustworthy to help me receive this money, so I believe in
God that you will be honest and kind to me and my little sister and that
you will not betray us or run away at the end of this transaction.

I am willing to offer you 15% of the total sum as compensation for your
effort after the successful transfer of this fund into your account
abroad... i will also like to meet you face to face to enable us build some
sort of trust and confidence between us. If you are willing and capable in
helping me and my sister without betraying us or run away with this money,
then I want you to send me the following
information's to enable us proceed
...

Your mobile and fax numbers
Your full name and occupation

Also indicate your willingness in helping me and my sister and promise me
that you will keep this project confidential, so that I will tell you more
about us and I will send you the prove documents showing the deposit of
money at the bank, after that I will send you the details of the bank where
my late father deposited the money so that you will contact them.

Thanks and God/Allah bless you.
Your new friend
Gabino

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