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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: rose williams <rosewilliamsx01@gmail.com>
Reply-To: rw2704995@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2021 09:12:23 +0000
Subject: Dear Friend I Need Your Help Please

Greetings

I'm contacting you based on your good profiles I read and for a good
reasons, I am in search of a property to buy in your country as I
intended to come over to your country for investment, Though I have
not meet with you before but I believe that one has to risk confiding
in someone to succeed sometimes in life.
My name is Mrs. Rose Willians am 35 year old we are from chad. My late
husband deals on Crude Oil with Federal Government of Sudan and he has
a personal Oil firm in Bentiu Oil zone town and Upper Nile city. What
I have experience physically, I don't wish to experience it again in
my life due to the recent civil Ethnic war cause by our President Mr.
Salva Kiir and the rebel leader Mr Riek Machar, I have been Under
United Nation refugee camp in abidjan to save my life and that of my
two little daughter but now i have geting a room where i stay with my
kids.

Though, I do not know how you will feel to my proposal, but the truth
is that I sneaked into abidjan our neighboring country where I am
living now I escaped with my two little daughter when the rebels
bust into our house and killed my husband as one of the big oil
dealers in the country. Ever since then, I have being on the
run.abidjan our neighboring country with the little ceasefire we had,
due to the face to face peace meeting accord coordinated by the US
Secretary of State, Mr. John Kerry and United Nations in Ethiopia
(Addis Ababa) between our President Mr Salva Kiir and the rebel leader
Mr Riek Machar to stop this war.
I want to solicit for your partnership with trust to invest the $3
million dollars deposited by my late husband in Bank because my life
is no longer safe in our country, since the rebels are looking for the
families of all the oil business men in the country to kill, saying
that they are the ones that is milking the country dry.
I will offer you 10% of the total fund for your help, while I will
partner with you for the investment in your country.responds on this
email..rw2704995@gmail.com

I will wait to hear from you so as to give you details.
With love from

Mrs. Rose Williams

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