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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: Aisha Amed <aisha_amedoo@yahoo.ca>
Reply-To: aisha_amed00@yahoo.fr
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 06:39:15 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: from aisha


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From amed aisha
Abidjan , Ivory Coast
West Africa .


Dear after going through your profile i decided to contact you for friendship and assistace.I am amed aisha the only child of late MR and Mrs Yerima Amed. my father was poisoned to death by his business associates because of his wealth and during my fathers sickness he called me on his sick bed as his only daurther because my mother died when am young and told me about the money($12.500.000) he deposited in a bank here in our country that it was because of this money he was poisoned that if he dies i shall look for some one whom i trust to help me transfer this money out of this our country to his account for investment purpose abroad while i will continue my education then the person will be managing the investment.Dear am soliciting your assistance to help me transfer this money out of this country for my life sake while i will come to meet you to continue my education in your country.


Dear am looking forward to hear from you so that we can discuss on what will be your compensation for this assistace.


Thanks
amed aisha
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