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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: "Barbara Johnson" <barbaratmgs@mail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: johnsonbarbara55@yahoo.fr
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 04:52:37 +0000
Subject: HELLO

Hello,

Good day,

How is life in your country? I hope that everything is fine with you and families? I am very happy to communicate with you, please make sure to read this messages carefully because it is too long but i have taken much of my time to write so that you will understand about my future plans to make a business investment relationship with you only if you are sincere because i need a reliable person to help me, its just that I have been obliged to lay a mere trust on you due to my situation here in the refugees camp, i believes deeply in my heart that you must be an honest sincere person because i want disclose my life secrets for you alone to help me.

Let me first of all introduce my self to you, but I want the best of your honesty after knowing about me, whom that I am, all because I will like to have a long business relationship with you despite of distance, I have the feeling that you will be a trusted person that you will not betray me.

However, I decided to contact you because of the urgency of my situation here in Senegal refugees camp, i will be glad to tell you everything about my life here, so you can help me from this painful conditions that i have found myself. My full name is Barbara Johnson, i am from the republic of Chad, the only daughter of Late Dr Habib Johnson. My late father is the managing director of Habib energy industries Ltd in Tripoli the capital city of Libya before the war took his life away from us. he was assassinated by the rebels during the war in Libya, on his way back to Chad with my two younger cousins. I will appreciate your urgent assistance towards me because of the maltreatment I been receiving from my wicked step mother since after the death of my father in Libya, she has planned to take all my late father's foreign account deposit and housing properties from me due to the unexpected death during the war in Libya.

Meanwhile I wanted to escape to any where in the world but she hides my international passport and other valuable traveling documents, luckily she did not discover where I kept my late father's file which contains many of his important documents, so I decided to run away with them, this is why i came to the refugees camp where I am presently seeking asylum here in the republic of Senegal. Dear, I wish to contact you personally for a long term business relationship that may lead us to a brighter future if we can work together with a sincere heart, life here in the refugees camp is very difficult, i honestly prays to move out from here as soon as you decided to help me even-though we have never seen each other before but now i can rely on you to eliminate any fear of betrayals.

My late father deposited the total amounts of (Nine Million Seven Hundred Thousand US Dollars) with my name as the next of kin there in Europe bank and i will forward all the necessary documents to you upon confirmation of your willingness to assist me for the transfer of this total funds to your bank accounts only for a legitimate investment in your country on my behalf and so that i will come over to your country to find where i can live to continue my studies in anywhere that you will chose for me to live comfortably, please respond urgent with more details about yourself but i want to know if you can help me to invest this fund before giving you more details of this fund deposit bank in Europe to avoid any mistake or maybe chosen the wrong person that will betray me.

Barbara


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