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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: penda oscar <ppenda12@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: ppendal2@yahoo.fr
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 14:56:31 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Hello Dear Good evening


Hello Dear Good evening
How are you and your family
? my greetings to you all.

Please read this my letter to you well and reply me back with your advice, I am really scare here in Africa since i lost
my father that is my world.
Really terrible thing since I lost my mother when I was 11 years old in diagnosed with cancer, and
in November 22 last year 2012 my father
had a stomach ache and went to the hospital. The doctor said he had food
poisoning and he died the next day, just like film, My father was my best friend. he helped me
with everything i need and i could tell him anything. 

The
worse is that my father same blood brother turn his wickedness to me
now, he threaten me with
bad words and wanted to control every property of my father because i am

the only child daughter my father born. all his actions is to  scare me
away out of my late
father properties, of which I am not even interesting to any of my
father properties. i need my life to be safe to a better country for
now.


Please keep this issue confidential with you, it's very serous matter
that involves huge amount
of
money my father deposited in a bank outside my country,'it was top
secret
to only me and my father which is now dead. please i will like his
money to be protected into your accounts in your country and you help
and invest it on my behalf in your country. I have with me now all the
original document bank issue to my father.

I don't know if you
will be chanced to visit me here in Africa and
for you to know me well,  so that both of us will meet the bank director
where my father
deposited his money, Worth's millions of Euro money and we authorized
them to transfer all the money to your accounts in your country. I have
already contact the bank and notice them about the lost of my father,
the bank director was very shock when i told him what happen to my Dad.


The reason i want us to meet face to face is to show you all the
original documents of the deposit
that cover this money so that you will trust and believe me and we meet
the bank and advice them to transfer all my father money to your
accounts in your country for my future, more so i will like to
discuss and agree with you the amount of money I will give you from this
money as soon as you confirm it in your account, then you invest the
rest on my behalf. but if you don't have time to come now, you let me
know, so that I will
email you the contacts of the bank for you to contact the bank and
confirm from them first about this my father funds
deposited in their bank then you know my sincerity before helping me. 
the only help i need from you is for you to stand by me as family friend
or father business partner live abroad then you  provide me valid
account where the bank will
transfer all the money to.

Please send me your direct
phone number to call and
speak with you and feel free to ask any thing you need to
know about this situation.
I am waiting for your reply.
Thanks from.

Penda

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