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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: Taylor Rita <taylorrita74@btinternet.com>
Reply-To: taylorrita74@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 1 May 2010 23:43:45 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: CAN WE HAVE THIS IN BETWEEN US...


Dear sir
 
with due respect, I would like to disclose an important information to you, which I know will be of benefit to both of us.

As a matter of urgency, I had to reach you through this medium with the help of my computer laptop, and I will be very glad if you will understand my position here and what am about to relate to you.

First of all, let me introduce myself to you. I am Charles Taylor’s daughter, the former President of Liberia. Although, I have not met you before, but I have been able to go through your profile and I am satisfied with the information I received concerning you. So, I have the confidence that a reliable and competent person like you will not betray my trust. However, I apologize for breaking into your privacy.

In August 2003, after being offered immunity by Nigeria, my father (Charles Taylor) resigned from his presidential post and goes into exile in Nigeria, as part of a peace deal to end Liberia's civil war. In March 2006, the new president of Liberia, Ellen Johnson, called for Nigeria to extradite my father from their country to come and face war crimes charge
labeled against him.

On March 29, 2006, Nigerian security officials arrested my father from his lightly guarded villa in the southeastern city of Calabar and repatriated him back to Liberia. My father is now taking the blame for what others did. Unfortunately, my own mother is late, and my stepmother who would have supported my father, left him and went back to Liberia after spending nine months with him in Calabar. She even filled a divorce suit against my father, all because of her selfish and political interest. Although she was later elected to Liberia's senate in 2005, but she has no place in my
father’s “WILL? You can read the full details on this website: http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=57741

You are to mail me back via mail taylorrita74@yahoo.com

I was schooling in USA when this problem started, and I had to drop out of college to help organize my father's defense. My only brother (Charles McArthur Emmanuel Taylor) who would have assisted me in this matter was arrested in Miami. You can also read about it on this website: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/02/05/america/NA-GEN-US-Taylors-Son.php

Presently, I am in CAMEROON  where I was granted asylum. The United Nations have restricted all my family members from traveling abroad and all our telephone calls are being monitored, which is the reason why I had to reach you through email. It is my only means and safe way of communication right now. The main reason why I contacted you is because of important information I just received from my father who is now facing a 17 counts charge in an international court in Hague, Netherlands. The have succeeded in frozen my father's assets and money in Swiss bank.

My father sent the information to me through a close confidant, and it was about the funds he deposited in my name with a Standard Chartered Bank  here in Calabar. I have with me all the information about the deposit. Due to my present condition here as a refugee, I cannot be able to handle this transaction myself. So, I need your urgent assistance to enable me transfer the fund overseas. Why I need the fund to be transferred urgently, is because we have to use part of the fund to get a good counsel that can help fight my father’s legal battle in Netherlands. If only you can help me in this transaction, I will sign an agreement with you, stating that you will take 30% of the total sum of Fifty  Million United States Dollars after the transaction.

Once you accept my proposal you are to contact my lawyer in uk.
 
I beg for your understanding and co-operation in this matter.
 
Yours faithfully,

DR RITA  .C. TAYLOR

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