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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: "Samuel Berewa" <accounts@cubixautomation.net>
Reply-To: samuelhelbere77@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2015 05:48:42 +0530
Subject: Please We Need Your Urgent Assistance




Greetings,

Good Day and God bless you as I introduce myself to you with all faith and
hope you will understand us and not to betray us or let us down at the
end. My name is SAMUEL and my sister's name is HELEN BEREWA. We are the
children of late CHIEF MAXWELL BEREWA,our father died years ago in our
country MENDE, Republic of Sierra Leone, He was into legal solid minerals,
diamonds and gold mining saleing which was under his positions in
government then, and he has succeeded in saving (US$9,500,000.00) Million,
during his Business on diamonds and gold mining selling, After he went on
a trip to Republic of Cote D'Ivoire near by country to our country to save
his money for security reasons because of the political problems in our
country, as our father returns back to our country Unfortunately he is
dead the rebels attack us and kill our father and burnt our house and we
ran to cote d'ivoire the country where our father deposited the money and
our mother also dead in hospital here and I will not want this money to be
kept like that without any investment purpose please we are contacting you
with full trust to assist and help us to transfer this money to your
account in your country for investment purpose hoping that you will not
let us down. we are going to give you 30% percent of the total money as
soon the bank transferred it to your account and the investment will be
under your care,

The bank have been waiting urgently for us to give them the foreign
beneficiary’s details where they will transfer the money to. Upon your
reply we will give you more details about us and on how the transfer will
be executed, I hope that you will not let us down.

We are waiting for your urgent reply, Please reply us to our private Email
here (samuelhelber77@yahoo.com ) Our telephone number +225-08-695-944, so
that i will give you all the details. Best regards
Samuel and Helen Berewa

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