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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: "Mrs. Sarah Kabila." <sarak4@hotmail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: sar_k40@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 12:36:35 +0400
Subject: none

Dear Sir/Madam.

It is my pleasure to contact you for a business arrangement, which my
Son Mark,and I intend to establish in your country.

Though I have not met with you before but I believe, one has to risk
confiding in success sometimes in life.

There is this huge amount of seventeen million U.S dollar
($17,000,000.00), which my late Husband kept for us with a Security Company before unknown person assassinated him.

Now my son and I decided to invest this money in your country or
anywhere safe enough for security and political reasons.

We want you to help us claim and retrieve these funds from the
Fiduciary Fund Holders and transfer it into your personal account in
your country for investment purposes on the ese areas:

Could you please notify me of your acceptance to carry out this
assistance urgently by e-mail only on the receipt of this message?

Kindly, acknowledge the receipt of this letter by sending to me by
email a copy of this letter with your private Telephone And Fax number.
I shall in turn inform you of the modalities.

If you can be of an assistance to us we will be pleased to offer to
you 10% of the total fund. You can easily reach me on this email
sar_k40@yahoo.co.uk <mailto:sar_k40@yahoo.co.uk>
Respectfully yours,

Mrs. Sarah Kabila.




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