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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: sandra robertson <sandra_robertson2006@yahoo.ca>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 09:49:41 -0500 (EST)
Subject: From: Sandra/ David Robertson


From: Sandra/ David Robertson
Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire.
Email:sandra_robertson@yahoo.ca
Dearest One,
REQUEST TO BE OUR GUARDIAN AND THEN
HELP US TO COME OVER YOUR COUNTRY:

Good day and how are you today? I hopefine? ,Permit us to inform you of our desire of asking you to be a guardian or foster parent to us and then help us out in what we are about to tell you. I'm Sandra Robertson (21) and have a junior brother David (18). We are the children of Late Mr. & Mrs. Kabenka A. Robertson. Our father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant here in Abidjan, the economic capital of Cote D'Ivoire. He was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outings on a business trip. Our mother died when we where babies. Before the death of our father on Sept. 2004 in a private hospital here in Abidjan, he secretly called us by his bed side and told us that he has the sum of Twelve million United State Dollars USD ($12.000,000) lodged in one of the local bank here in Abidjan.
He told us that he used my name (Sandra) as the next of Kin in depositing the money. He then strongly advised us not to seek for assistance in the investment of the money from any of his brother nor any of his friend here but to seek for a foreign partner from a country of our choice (outside our country,Cote D'Ivoire) that willl assist us in the wise investment of the money. We have since left the money in the security company with the view of our making use of it for investment purposes after our education carrier here. But as you may be already aware by now, our country (Cote D'Ivoire) is presently at political crises. Rebels have already taken over the whole Northern part of the country and making efforts towards the capture of the commercial center of the country, Abidjan, where we are now. For this urgly development in this country, we have now decided to take quick actions and have this money transferred out of this country before it is too late to do that.

We now want to transfer it out and use it for investment purpose like real estate management or hotel management Because of this we are honorably seeking your assistance in the following ways:

(1) To serve as a guardian to us and then assist us transfer the fund into your country's account.

(2) To make arrangement for us to come over to your country to further our education and then settle there parmanently If you accept to stand as our guardian or foster parent to us, we need not discuss on any percentage with you as you have to see the whole money as yours and then assist us invest it. But if you still want a percentage, we are willing to offer you, 20 % of the total money as compensation for your assistance and 5% for any expenses you may do during this transaction. Please tell us if you feel the percentage we offered is not ok by you.

As soon as we receive your concrete assurance to assist us with our proposal and also your full name and contact address/phone number, we will then give the bank your contact information and then let them know that you are the beneficiary. The bank will then contact you and communicate with you for the transaction. You shall then be giving us information on when the transfer will be over.
We shall also send our pictures to you and shall also need yours too. No matter what your decision may turn out to be, please we beg you to keep this highly secret for our safety, as we believe that those that killed our Daddy are still after us. Due to our present condition and the confidentiality of this matter we reply to us strictly on our private email address: Email: sandra_robertson@yahoo.ca
Thanks and God bless you .
Best regards,
Sandra / David Robertson.


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