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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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Fraud email example:

From: qqev6ey9k <wana-hys@road.ocn.ne.jp>
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2018 07:10:57 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Contact Me Please



Dear Heart Of Mine,

Thanks for you for writting to me, am very glad to see that you are serious about me and i would like to tell you everything about me cos i won't like to hide anything for you.....all men that contacted me only wanna cheat on me I believe.... but i contacted you myself as my spirit directed me, I want you to know that am a very simple woman, am faithful, honest and trustworthy so am looking for the same thing in the man to be mine, i also see in your mail that you are honest, faithful, truthful and kind... I will not like to hide anything for you and i will like to tell you everything about me, well i've been having a problem with my Dad who i live with before he was dead due to our differences, i have left the United State after the death of dad in United State . My Dad works with Oil Contractors in UK and ITALY, Africa including some parts of the Asian and American. I work with my father as his personal auditor and we move around for his contracts wherever he is awarded. My first boy friend, John Lucas, absconded with my dad's money which was kept with me after a completion of a contract in EAST London,UK. When my boy friend got absconded with the undisclosed sum of US dollars, this brought the first broke up between me and my dad, cos he thought, we have the deal together, but not knowing that I'm innocent about this.

So my dad has been harsh and tough against me about this. Then when I perceived all his behaviors towards me and the bad acts of his newly gotten wife before he was dead, i decided to leave Untied State to meet a friend in Lagos in west Africa whom have meet during our stay there for a contract with N.N..P.C. I left because my late dad wife have been treating me bad and stopped me from working even having any access to his assets, and i felt no where to go than to leave the states.

Now, I'm in need of your help, have gotten the enough money to run myself when I get to africa, i want to come over to your end and stay with you for main time, I don't want to live here anymore, you know I'm a foreigner here and it is absolutely danger for me here, so that is why i need your gesture assistance. How i want you to help me? I have some money, which I've gotten from an over invoiced Contract enumeration executed by my dad with some contractors, so I have taken up the money from the contractors, but I'm hiding up from the girl I stayed with here in Africa, because i might got setup if they know i have such huge amount of money ($7.5million), so for me to be more safe and secure, I put this money in a box and got it locked up with a security code known to me only, and I deposited the box with some of my traveling luggage's with a Security and Insurance Company who render private diplomatic delivery service and i told them that the two boxes are my traveling luggage, which i want to send forth to US because i'm returning home, then i paid them up their custody and security fee.

So, I want the box sent to you while i catch u with you as soon as it is been delivered to you while I pay you up your bills charge and a reasonable amount for compensation, only 15% of the money in the box to you. Every arrangement for the delivery is kinda perfect, I have obtained customs papers for private freight and there are seals on the box showing that it is a private delivery and check performed, it is free from customs checks, it will be delivered at your door step by the diplomats of the security company, you do not need to burn out to receive it. And the boxes have security codes lock known to me only, only me can open the boxes, except if I tell anyone the Code, so the Boxes cannot be opened on the Way of delivery to you.Therefore, I want you to contact me as soon as possible, so that you can help me to make the Clearance from the Security Company as the Recipient of my Boxes. And once the box gets to you, I will be there with you, then we can open the box together or i will tell you the code to open it, so that you can arrange everything properly before my arrival.Contact me on this Email below Enail andreasanchez257@yahoo.com

Regards
Ms Rose Owen
Email frk77895l@gmail.com

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