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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: felix adams <fe25adams@yahoo.fr>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 19:57:05 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: FROM FELIX TO VICTIM-FULLNAME ( please very urgent and confidential,ok. )


Dear Mr.VICTIM-FULLNAME

I solely and happily to received your mail and i am single and an orphan as well. I thank you very much for your interest to an orphan like me. May God almighty continue to bless you as you have signified your interest to assist me out from my situation, God almighty has giving me strong courage and better visions to enable me to trust and confide in you more and more before i can open up everything regarding my transaction to you.I so much put my trust on you believing that you will never disapoint me. Please i want you to tell me now, are you a God fearing person as i observed?

So i wish you well and i beleive we can do something together and we can work together because God almighty has given me a vision to proceed with you during my prayers,fasting and meditation with God to know if you are a honest and trustworthy person. Thank God almighty for his direction because i know fully well now that i am dealing with a right person, honest and trustworthy. I know how much you feels about assisting me out from my situation. I am sure God almighty will rewards you back plentifully and plentifully for trying to help an orphan like me.

As for your brief details, my transaction is legal, geniue and 100% risk free. I prayed,fasted and meditated with God almighty for over 7 good days before i contacted you, knowing fully well that you will successfully assist me out .Also, i don't know what you think about investing in Real estate and stock markets. I have full trust and confident in you beleiving in God almighty that you will never dissapoint me. Please give me brief details about yourself, Are you a christian, honest and God fearing person as i observed.Please i want you to call me on 00225 0778 3782 immediately you receive this message so that we can discuss in details concerning this transfer of the fund.

All i want from you is for you to help me transfer my inheritance fund into your country for the purpose of investment in real estate management and stock market.I am willing to offer you 20% out of the total fund for your assistance to me. Please i want you to quickly help me out from my situation because of some enemies that are after my life and my inheritance fund and as well because of this political crisis going on now in my country. lifes is not safe due to the political crisis in my country .

If you could help me out as you promised me, franckly speaking i will always be of enough appreciations to you throughout my lifetime and i will always remember your goodness to me all the entire time of my life and death. Please tell me how old are you, what is your marital status, your occupations and business nature,your companies names, home and office adresses, your telephone and fax numbers including your photos for confidential reasons,ok. I will be waiting for your urgent and favourable response immediately now.

Thanks with best regards
Felix Adams










































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