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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: pat duru <pat3_duru@zwallet.com>
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 06:55:34 -0500
Subject: help

Good day.



I know this letter may come to you as a surpise since it is coming from someone you have not met before.How,we decided to contact you based on a satisfory information I had about your persoanal details in this business inforemation concerning your countr





y andsafety of our fund in a steady economy such as that of your country compared to Africa.I wish to solicit your help in migrating to Your country and Investing my funds.Briefly, I am a Sierre Leone National and the wife of late Dr Williams Kamara. Unt





il his death, my husband was the Maneging Director of Diamond Mine in Kanema and one of the richest diamond and gold deilar in Seirre Leone. On December 3rd 2002 the military forces loyal to the Government of Ahmed Tijan Kabbah invaded the diamond mine a





nd assassinated my husband, mistaking him for his brother Mike Kamara who was the deputy to the leader of the Revolutionary United Frond ( RUF ) Foday Sankoh. When the news reached me, I hurried gethered some valuables things in our family villa and esca





ped for my dear life in the company of my only son and my husband durgther, among the valuable was a file that contained details of a deposite my husband made in a security compary in AbidjanCote d" Ivoire. He deposited US$ 14.7 million dollers contained





in a trunk box as family valuables money he made from the of Gold and Diamonds during his time as the General Maneging Director. this box which is concealed in a trunk is deposited with a security and finance compary here in Abidjan, under a special arr





angement as family valuable tresure, this means that the security company dose not know the content of this boxes which was brought from Sierra Leone under a diplomatic coverage.Now that we are in Abidjanand verified the transaction,we need your assissta





nce to help us move this funds out of Cote d' Ivoire for investment in your country as we can not invest here due to its nearness to our conutry and the war still going on there.We ask you to scout for a viable and lucrative business, so that we can invi





st wisely.We have it in mind to give you 10% of the total sum US$14.7 million dollers,and 5% of any expenses which you will make in course of this transaction--fax messages, phone calls,air tickets etc.By this mail, you are now requested to arrage a visi





t down to Abidjan so that we shall know ourselsves and arrange on how to transfer

this money to your conutry and invsit. There is need for urgent actions because I pay US$100 daily as demurrage to the security company for keeping this consignments Looking forward for your urgent response.and forward all you full private contact addres





ses including telehpone and fax numbers.



Your Sincerely

Mrs Pat Duru Wiliams

you can call me with this number 00225 0713 15

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