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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: missaminata@handbag.com
Reply-To: aminatain_need@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 14:24:25 +0200
Subject: MISS. AMINATA SALIU THE LOCAL GOLD MINNER

Dear Sir,

How are you doing?,hope fine i guess,if so thanks be to Almighty Allah.

Well, i dont really know you before, Let me discribe myself to you,I am Miss
Aminata Saliu and my age is 29 years old,i am a local gold minner from west
coast of sierra leone in the West Africa but currently I live in dakar-senegal
as a refugee due to the political crisis that occure in my conutry.

I am a moslem looking for a reliable and trusted person that i wish to marry
and spend the rest of my life with and have kids in future. I want you to
help me for an urgent asistance.i need a real person that have the fear ofAlmighty
Allah on his mind.

I am choosing you to assist me to transfer out my fund by standing as my
foreign beneficiary to the financier house where my fund is deposited here
in dakar-senegal.the consignment of this fund was lifted from sierra leone
to dakar-senegal by an America UN worker under the cover of UN)and this old
America man made me to sign an agreement between with the financier house
that i will not have access to this fund until it been transfer out of the
country dakar for the sake of my safety.the total amount of this fund is
USD$1.1(One Million one hundred thousand Us Dollars).

I do hope you are a reliable,truthful and trusted person, that I wish to
spend the rest of my life with as a wife or an assistant. so that i can trust
this fund to you,if your interest is noted,i will tell where my fund is deposited
and how my fund will be transfered.

Yours in-need,
Miss aminata saliu



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