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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: " Mrs.Madam Efiong," <madam11efiong@gmail.com>
Reply-To: madamefiong@yahoo.pt
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 17:58:53 +0000
Subject: My Dear ,

My Dear ,

My name is Madam Efiong from Aleppo city, Syria.I hope you will be kind
enoughto read and reply my letter even though we never meet each before.

I escaped from Syria last week with my only surviving son.I find myself in
a country name Togo in Africa. This is the only possibility because almost
all the countries of Europe are tired of my country,Syria .I lost my entire
family in this on going war, my mother,my father,my two daughters and my
husband who is a coloniel with the

Syrian army. Life does not mean anything again to me without all these
people. I fled Syria because because another dangerous group the ISIS is
coming closer to over run Syria .The world does not even know what is
happening inside Syria.People are killed everyday with women and young
girls raped by the
terrorists fighting to overthrow our president.

Can you assist me and my son to relocate to your country? I also need to
invest my late husband's money with your assistance.My late husband left
behind $6 million and no other person knows about this except me and my son
who survived this war.This money is a cash money because no bank is working
in my city so we moved the cash to a safe finance company.

I need your assistance to receive and invest this money.I will be ready to
part you with 30% for as long as you can assure me of our safety in your
country.If you are capable to handle this money kindly reply to enable me
give you more details on how to move the money to you.Even if you are not
capable do let me know as well to enable me seek for another person. Use
the email above.

Kindly treat this letter secret because we learnt that there was plans by
EU and UN to size money traced to

loyalists of our president after the war.This is all we have left.

God bless you.

Mrs.Madam Efiong

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