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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: RITA KING <funte.jerry0@gmail.com>
Reply-To: RITA KING <missritaking01@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 09:38:07 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: FROM:MISS Rita King


 FROM:MISS Rita King
>From Togo Republic West Africa .
BUSINESS ASSISTANCE.
Dear Respectful one

Compliment of the season ,

As I mentioned above that My name is Rita King , 19 years old the only child of Mr. and Mr.’s Daniel King , I am from a country call TOGO REPUBLIC IN WEST AFRICA ,my mother died when I was still small and since then my father took me so special because I was his only child.My father was a very rich man here in this country and in the united state during his days ,He was a dealer of Gold business and has a lot of landed properties here, but it is sad to tell you about the sudden death of my father, His family brothers poison him to death because they where envy of his wealth, My father suffer the poison illness for 7days at the hospital and letter died , before the death of my father at the hospital He told me about some money $3,500.000.00 Three million and five hundred thousand united state dollars which he deposited in a bank in America with my name as the next of Kin.

dear I have all the documents of the deposit with me here now , after the burial of my father His family members seize all his properties and left nothing for me , all that remains for me now is only this money at the bank in America, but because of this money they started planning how to Assassinate me so that

they will take the deposit documents and claim the money at the bank,so when i discover their evil plan against my life I ran away from our home and now am hiding out in a church refugee Camp in village here so that my life will be save .please save my life from this wicked people ,I want you to help me claim this money out from the bank and transfer it to your account so that I will come over to your country and stay with you and your family and continue my education again , this is why I contacted you for the first time, I need your urgent help now to come out of this situation ,I am going through a difficult situation here now ,I am really tired of staying here without parents and no rest of mind ,please help me , Dear if you read this massage and you are ready to help me out from this situation reply me back immediately and send me your full personal Data such as,

1)Your full name
2)Your full address
3Your phone number
4)Your age and occupation.
5)Your country of Origin
6)Your Marital Status.

Once again if you are willing to help me don't delay to send me your full Data as I stated above so that I will know more about you and also introduce you to the bank in America for the transfer, Send the Data here ,(missritaking01@yahoo.com) am waiting to hear from you very urgent.

My best regards to you.
Yours Truly
Rita King ,
missritaking01@yahoo.com

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