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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: a_anderson03 <a_anderson03@yeah.net>
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 18:17:52 +0800 (CST)
Subject: Re,

Dear One,


Compliments of the season .I know that you may be astonished to reieceve this mail but I trust my feelings will excuse me in yours eyes.


I am Augustina Anderson, I am 19 years old girl, and am seeking your sincere kindness to help me transfer my 2.5 million dollars into your account and I will compensate you with 10% of the total sum that will be transferred into your account and I shall immediately come over to rejoin you in your country to enable me to continue my education from where I stopped because of my late father’s untimely death which have now caused me a lot of havoc and not knowing what next to do or even to think properly.


I want to come over to your country and start a new life there in your country once I have this my inheritance transferred to you, I wish to relocate myself because of my late father’s wicked uncles who want are after my dear life just because of my inheritance which I inherited from my late father for they were the brain behind my father’s death for they cooperated with some my late father’s business associates to poison him during one their usual business trip.


Just after the burial of my late father, they started to collect some properties from me saying that I am too young to uphold but I do not trust them any longer because of the way they are now treating me for they all bluntly refused to hand over to me some big landed properties which is in their position and there is nothing I can do than for me to transfer this fund out immediately and then come over to rejoin you there in your country so that I can start a new life.


Please I am begging you sincerely to help me so that my late father wicked uncles will not kill me and collect this money from me because this is my only hope in this world and this is my only life in this world and I do believe that this inheritance can help me in any part of the world if I well manage it.


I will need your full names,Your house address and your telephone numbers so that I can go to the bank and I well tell that bank that you are my foreign business partner so that they now transfer the money to you and once you confirm it to me I will come over to meet with out any delay.



So please let me hear from you,


Thanks for your well concern,


Augustina. F. Anderson




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