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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: Sonia Abudu <ambassadorjames.entw@yahoo.pt>
Reply-To: Sonia Abudu <astogah001@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 23:37:38 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Greetings From Sonia Abudu!


Greetings

I am writing this mail to you with tears and sorrow from my heart. With due respect , trust and humanity, honestly, I will really like to have a good relationship with you and i have a special reason why i decided to contact you, is due to the urgency of my situation Though I have not met with you before but I believe that one has to risk confiding in someone to succeed sometimes in life.

My name is Miss Sonia Abudu I am 19 years old. My late Father deals on Crude Oil with Federal Government of Sudan and he has a personal Oil firm in Bentiu Oil zone town and UpperNile city. What I have experience physically, I don't wish to experience it again in my life due to the recent civil Ethnic war cause by our President Mr. Omar al-Bashir the rebel leader Mr Riek Machar, I have been Under United Nation refuge camp in Republic Benin to save my life.

Though, I do not know how you will feel to my proposal, but the truth is that I sneaked into Republic Benin our neighboring country where I am living now as a refugee. I escaped from our when the rebels bust into our house on 21/06/2014 and  killed my Father and my mother as one of the big oil dealers in the country, ever since then, I have being on the run and I happens to be the only child of my parents.

 I left my country and move to Republic Benin our neighboring country with the little ceasefire we had, due to the face to face peace meeting accord coordinated by the US Secretary of State, Mr John Kerry and United Nations in Ethiopia (Addis Ababa) between our President Mr Omar al-Bashir and the rebel leader Mr Riek Machar to stop this war.

I want to solicit for your partnership with trust to invest the  $4.3 million dollars deposited by my late father in London in your country because my life is no longer safe in our country, since the rebels are looking for the families of all the oil business men in the country to kill, saying that they are they one that is milking the country dry.


I will offer you 20% of the total fund for your help and I will like you to help me in investing my inherited fund in your country and also have the opportunity to further my studies.


I will wait to hear from you so as to give you details.

With love from
Sonia Abudu




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