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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: aminatasaliu_ineed@handbag.com
Reply-To: aminatasaliu@netscape.net
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 14:26:56 +0200
Subject: MISS. AMINATA THE LOCAL GOLD MINER

Dear Sir,

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

Well, i don't really know you before, Let me describe myself to you, I am
Miss Aminata Saliu and my age is 26 years old, i am a local gold miner from
west coast of sierra leone but currently I live in
dubia as a refugee due to the political crisis that occurred in my country.

I am a Moslem young girl looking for a reliable and trusted person that will
wish to assist and introduce me on how to invest my funds in future. I want
you to help me urgently, since the American old man that assisted me in moving
the funds is asking me for marrage, and if I say no right now he might even
try to report this to the government of dubia. i need a real person that
have the fear of Almighty Allah on his mind to come to my assistance before
this old man gets to understand that i can´t get married to him.

I am choosing you to assist me to transfer out my fund by standing as my
foreign beneficiary to were my funds is deposited.the consignment of this
fund was lifted from sierra leone to dubia by the America UN worker under
the cover of UN and this 69years old America man made me to sign an agreement
with him that i will not have access to this fund until it been transfer
out of the country dubia for the sake of my safety.the total amount of this
fund is USD$1.1(One Million one hundred thousand US Dollars)only.

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 to advice me on how to
invest my money. 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 transferred.

Yours in-need,
Miss aminata saliu



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