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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: jmichelle2002@terra.com.mx
Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 12:47:30 +0100
Subject: HELPING PEOPLE.





Dear friend,
my names are Joseph Michelle. i'm a 65 years old man. i am british living
in
dubai ( united arab emirate). i'm a merchant and owned two businesses in
dubai. i'm married with two children. my wife and two children died in a
car
accident six years ago. before this happened my business and concern for
making money was all i lived for.i never really cared about other values
in
life.
but since the loss of my family, i have found a new desire to assist helpless
familes. i
have been helping orphans in orphanage/ motherless homes. i have donated
some
money to orphans in sudan, south africa, cameroun, brazil, spain, austria,
germany and some asian countries.
before i became ill, i kept some money, fifteen and a half million dollars
$15.5million) to be precise in a long term deposit account in a security
company in abidjan cote d' ivoire. presently, i'm in a hospital. my doctors
told me i have
prostrate cancer that i have a few months to live.it is my last wish to
see
this money distributed to charity
organizations. because so much of my wealth has been plundered by relatives
and friends since my illness, i cannot live with the agony of entrusting
this
huge
responsibility to any of them.
please, i beg you in the name of God to help me collect the deposit from
the security company in cote d' ivoire and distribute it amongst charity
organizations. use your judgement to distribute the money and keep 10% of
it
to yourself.
feel free to reimburse yourself when you have the money for any cost you
incur
during the process of collecting and ditributing the money to charity
organizations. may the good Lord bless you and your
family.
i await your urgent response.
sincerly,
Joseph Michelle
pls reply through this alternative email; j_michelle2005@yahoo.com


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