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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: "Alfonso William" <wilindah@netc.fr>
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 12:58:32 -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 while my little sister is 15. We are from
Republic of Sierra Leone. I found your contact address through my late
father's international business directory link on the internet 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 a fix deposit account in the bank
in a neighboring country called Ivory coast and that he wanted to use the
money for real estate investment in America. 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 so that he will inherit his
properties as our culture demands. My father advised me to use his
international business directory to look for a reliable person in a country
of my choice who can assist us and secretly transfer the money abroad so
that we can move on with his real estate investment dream.

I saw your contact address during my search so i decided to contact you to
give out our trust to you. I am only writing to seek your kind help and
advice if it will be possible for you to assist me and my little sister
achieve our dream of relocating to your peaceful country with this money,
for investment of the money and for further studies. I and my little sister
have chosen to live under your guardianship so that you can guild us and
invest the money in real estate. We will also further our college education
under your guardianship. 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.

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. So i will need your help in the
following ways, to stand as our overseas guardian and as our late
father\\\\\\\'s overseas business partner so that the bank can release and
transfer the money to your bank account. I hope with your help and adverse
experience we will have the money successfully transferred to your country
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 in real estate and also 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 late father\\\\\\\'s overseas
business partner and guardian 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 helping us achieve our dream of relocating to your country with
this money. 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 William




























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