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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: Natu Serge <natu05serge@yahoo.pl>
Reply-To: natu_serge44@yahoo.fr
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:31:07 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: From Natu Serge......Help


Dearest one,


I am Miss Natu Serge the first daughter of late Mr George Serge,Who was formerly the Director of Parachamb Gold and Diamond Company Abidjan-Cote d'ivoire.

I am an undergraduate in the university of Accura Ghana. Well the death of my father occured on 9th noverber 2004, during the bomb blast which took place in Abidjan cote D'Ivoire, my father was injuried seriously though he could not give up the same day, while my mother Mrs Mary Serge and my little brother died at a spot and I left school to come and wittness what is going on. Before my father last hour, he revealed to me as his first daughter that he made a deposite of huge amount of money in one of the bank here in Abidjan ($5.5million)Five Million Five hunderd thousand dollars.with my name as the next beneficary.

Now I have decided to invest these money in your country or anywhere safe enough outside Africa for security and political reasons since my country and Africa at large has been having remours of wars and political crises. I want you to help me stand as my guardian and foreign trustee since this is the agreement reached between my late father with the bank that I must present my Foreign Business Partner / Investment Manager before I can have full access to the funds; I want you to help me claim and transfer the money into your overseas nominated account in your country for onward investment purposes on the below listed areas of investments:

1). Telecommunication
2). Transport Industry
3). Real Estate
4).Private School
5).Private Hospital

If you can be of an assistance to me I will be pleased to offer to you 15% Of the total fund and 5% will be deducted for any expenses that might arise during the process of this transaction. Again, I don't want this to get to the knowledge of my late Father family members because this is the only thing remaining for me as they have seized all other properties leaving me empty handed as a result of greediness. But we trust that with God all things are possible and if the bank agree and to transfer the funds to you, my suferring will come to an end. I have all the legitmate documents to back up this which was issued to my late father by the bank.


Sincerely,

Natu Serge.



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