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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!

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Fraud email example:

From: Princess Brigitte Private official Mail <privateofficial@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: Princess Brigitte Private official Mail <rlii.ceo2001@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2015 03:58:22 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: From: Princess Brigitte Halley


Salam

With Due Respect And Humanity, I was compelled to write to you under a humanitarian ground.Please endeavour to read through this email i am confuse if still your email address use this  funds  $22 million to maintain good work of humanity,i have deemed it necessary to contact you on my direct email and ascertain the true position,I am able to make donation to Orphan Village Construction ,i finded the site at www.orphansinneed.org ,

Hope you still remember me,the young girl  you ask sometime to give you details about the Inheritance concessions in Ghana,some time ago when Come across  this your new  email and Decided to get in touch with you after the death of my parents, when I contacted Engr.Kenneth Buff ,my late father's foreign Consulting Engineer with Monier Construction Company (M .C.C) in Coopersburg, Pennsylvania 18036 USA and  Unfortunately, Engr.Kenneth Buff address has been changed

This is In regards to the on going program concerning orphanages, widows, and other less privilege Ebola patients in the world which was recently put to public notice on CNN NEWS and to think the best possible thing that will  happen your assistance can  really salvaged the less privileged once in the society,I am the  dying girl who  decided to donate what i have to you on this  humanitarian ground

My name is Princess Brigitte Halley, The  Daughter of Late Paul Louis Halley  a French citizen who was an oil explorer in Brussels kingdom of Belgium and  and Director P. L. Halley  Oil Industries Western Africa Ghana who was the  principal shareholders in International Gold Mining of Ghana  and French business world Western Europe MD that lost his life  with my Mum Annik Jacqueline (the wife) in the course of 2003 air  crash near Oxford Airport from Brussels, Belgium  on 6th December  on his way as you can see here on the site:

http://newswww.bbc.net.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/oxfordshire/4537663.stm

 i was born twin on Wednesday 6 June 1984 but one dead left me alone and i was only 19 years old when my parent pass away on the Air Accidents,i was Muslim from my mother before  i am Converted to Christian due to illness after my parents death   now i  am 31 years old   and you know that i have been diagnosed for heart cancer about 4 years ago,

But presently  you know that our family doctor told me that  I have only  two  months to live due to heart cancer problem,So I have been touched by the God to donate from what I have inherited from my late parent to charity through you for helping the widows , less privileged Ebola patient and also for the assistance of the Orphans which  i am one

I want God to be merciful to me and accept my soul, this is why I have decided to give arms on this  humanitarian ground,  and i only  want somebody that will use this fund the way i want

Presently the fund is deposited with Bank and once if i  hear from you i will forward to you all the information you will use to get this fund transfer from the Security Bank to your Account, if you are interested in carrying out this task, i have honestly prayed over it  that this money when transferred to your account will be used for the said purpose

You may be wondering why I select you because i find your contact email address in our  reliable datas and  I took this decision because i dont have any reliable relative that will inherit this money and  I don`t want  my parents hard earned money to be misused by my relative because all my father investment closed down because there is nobody no good relative  to handle the venture very well and my l relatives was trying to kill me so that they will use the opportunity to take over my inheritance which originally belongs to me as culture demand as the only (Child) daughter of the dead parent ,i therefore seek your consent to use this fund the way i want on humanitarian ground and to donate work of Allah

 I don`t want a situation where these money will be used in an ungodly manner, hence the reason for taking this bold decision.I can only communication with you via email because of my health I cant always call you because of my health,I have been restricted by our doctor from taking telephone calls and Two of my late father relative  around me but I will always try if chance permits me. I don`t want them to know about these development

Now that God has called me, i have Donate and give most of my  late parent property and assets to the  immediate and extended family members as well as a few close friends,i want God to be merciful to me and accept my soul

So far, i have distributed money to some charity  organization in  the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,U.A.E, Now that my health has deteriorated so badly, I cannot do this myself any more. I once asked members of our family to close one of my family accounts and distribute the money which I have there to charity organization in  Pakistan, Syria they refused and kept the money to themselves.

Hence, I do not trust them anymore, as they seem not to be contended with what I have left for them from my late parent,  I want you to help me collect this $22 million deposit and dispatched it for good work of humanity.You will take 30% of this money   for your time and service because I am now too weak and frigile to do things myself because of my heart cancer attack

Please use the funds well to  extend the good work to others. If you are interested to be bless show this mercy, also willing to bless other's too, my mind tells me to do this and I hope you are the one who can do this properly.

NB: I will appreciate your utmost confidentiality in this matter until the task is accomplished, as I don' t want anything that will Jeopardize my last wish, due to the fact that I do not want relatives or family members standing in the way of my last wish. for security reason: If you have any question, if you can not  carry out this task kindly Contact Me Intime

Thanks for your cooperation and Peace be upon you

From: Princess Brigitte Halley





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