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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: "Williams <linfon.william@net-c.com>" <linfon.william@net-c.com>
Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 10:25:01 -0300
Subject: Re: Resp sir

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Hello dearest

Please permit my introduction. My name is Alfonso and my sister's name is
Linda. I am 19 years of age. We are from Republic of Sierra Leone. I found
your contact address through my late father's international business
directory and I decided to contact you to seek your kind assistance in
helping us to relocate to your country for further studies and for
investment of the money we inherited from our late father. We lost our
parents few months ago in a ghastly motor accident. My mother died instantly
when the accident happened but my father sustained a very severe injury
which resulted to his untimely death four days after he was rushed down to a
private hospital. May there soul rest in perfect peace. My late father spent
his whole life in the building and construction industry as an engineer. He
left behind for us eight million three hundred thousand dollars which
according to him he realized from the execution of some government contracts
that was awarded to him and some of his colleagues in the office. Before he
died at the hospital he told me that he deposited the money in the bank in a
neighboring country called Ivory coast. He advised me not to let his half
brother to know about the money because he suspected he was the person that
masterminded the mysterious accident. He advised me to look for somebody in
a country of my choice abroad who can assist us and secretly transfer the
money abroad so that we can invest it in real estate and distance his half
brother.

We chose to finally relocate to your peaceful country with this money so
that you can guild us and invest it properly in real estate. We will also
further our college education. Now i am writing to seek your kind help and
advice if it will be possible for you to assist us achieve the dream of
relocating to your peaceful country with this money, for investment of the
money and further studies. Please if you cannot be able to assist us to
transfer this money to your country, you tell me so that l will look for
another person because l sent this mail to you before.

We are now in Ivory Coast and have succeeded in locating the bank where my
late father deposited the money and have identified our self properly and
also informed them about the sad fate my parents had suffered. The bank
confirmed the deposit document and said that my late father deposited the
money in their bank escrow suspense account for safe keep. So i will need
your help in the following ways, to stand as our guardian overseas and
attest so that the bank can release and transfer the money to your bank
account and then make arrangement for a good business investment which you
will invest with the money on our behalf. I hope with your help we will have
the money successfully transferred to your bank account and we will have a
better life to live in your country under your guardianship.

It is true that i do not know you in person but i pray and hope that you
have it in your heart to assist us with all sincerity and honesty. You will
guild us and invest the money and manage the investment until we are
capable. Please if you can help us, i will want you to send your contact
information that the bank can use to contact you so that i can make your
name available to the bank as my guardian overseas that will attest on our
behalf for the release of the money. I am willing to give you any amount
which you will wish to have after receiving the money in your safe bank
account. Thank you and May God bless you and your family as you help us
achieve our dream of relocating to your country to start a new life and
further our education under your guardianship.

Sincerely
Alfons & Linda Williams




































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