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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: " Welsienta" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <harryduru4@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 03:22:28 -0700
Subject: DO NOT IGNORE THIS

Attention:


My name is Diplomat Joesi Welsienta, believe me or not I am out to do the right thing if you follow my advice/ instructions you will never fail or regret ever doing so, I am an humble, sincere and honorable man to the core, I want to divulge an important information to you; in 2007/2008 you were expecting your inheritance payment from the Apex Bank which didn't get to you but I can authoritatively tell you that it has already been signed by the Government as PAID INHERITANCE while some unscrupulous element has kept the money in two trunk boxes weighing about 16-17 cubic feet just waiting for the government and you (being the beneficiary) to forget about it before it will be released from the storage facility where it is being kept for safekeeping on their behalf then they will all share it, I was contacted by a friend of mine to help them deliver the trunk to someone in far away Bullsgap, Tennessee but going by the documents and finding how long the
trunk boxes has spent in the storage it aroused my curiosity to dig deep to find out the content or the motive for keeping such trunk boxes for too long (You cannot discover oceans unless you have the courage to leave the shore) then I stumbled upon an information which I will only let you know when I meet you face to face for the delivery of your consignment, it is also at that point I discovered what they declared on the US CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION 6059B DECLARATION FORM didn't reflect the real content, they declared it as Paintings while it contained MONEY.

I got wind of the information since last year but I decided to dig more deeper and establish the motive behind the false declaration by them to the US Customs then I later found out they were trying to rip you off of your inheritance, which I have decided to deliver to the right person only and not to them whom are all schemers; please try to trust me it was borne out of the desperation in me to do the right thing that was what prompted me just like Peter Senge SAID “People excel and learn, not because they are told to, but because they want to.", I know you might be wondering why am I doing all these things but it is just as simple as I want to do what is right even knowing fully well it is a risk just like Dali Lama said ("Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.") I am ready to take the risk to ensure you are happy again because going into more investigation I found out how much you have spent in the past to the
bank and government officials both in Nigeria and in the United Kingdom just to get your inheritance transferred to your account but now I want to deliver the trunk boxes to you if only you will alone me to do just that without any hesitation.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion, If you want to be happy practice compassion that is my quote of the day to you, my question to is this, do you want us to achieve success? I don't want you to say yes and later leave it to me alone to continue; you must be with me to the end and I am assuring you if you follow all my instructions within 2days I shall deliver to you anywhere you want to, but for us to achieve this you have to be courageous, compassionate and obedient then success shall be ours just forget about what you are going to sacrificed to get the trunk boxes rather Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it because The first step toward change is acceptance." "Once you accept yourself, you open the door to change. That's all you have to do." "Change is not something you do, it's something you allow, be courageous and lets do it together as a team don't just say I have done it several times so these won't
make any difference "NO" if you Fall seven times get up eight that is my advice to you, now are you ready for us to move forward and get your inheritance across to you? Remember Fortune favors the bold, but abandons the timid, are you the bold or timid one? get back to me because I need to get the trunks out of the storage by latest tomorrow being Tuesday and deliver to you on or before the 17th of April 2014, while you read this always remember that it is ONLY THOSE WHO RISK GOING TOO FAR CAN POSSIBLY FIND OUT HOW FAR ONE CAN GO.


Sincerely
Joesi Welsienta
347-433-7939
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