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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!

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Fraud email example:

From: acky kouassi18 <ackykouassi18@yahoo.com.br>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 14:38:49 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: PERSONAL


PRINCE MANGA KOUASSI
PEACE FOUNDATION HOUSE
VALLERY DE ESSANG
BOULEVARD ABIDJAN
IVORY COAST

MY Hope



I am Mr PRINCE MANGA KOUASSI the only son of the late Chief Manga Kouassi Williams former chairman of gold and diamond corporation of Sierra Leone . The source of your contact gives me courage and confidence to entrust my life to you. I write to you with an absolute confidence firstly to ask for your assistance to transfer our liquidity from 9.8 million dollar which currently is in the custody of a security company of safety here in Abidjan in your personal account until our arrival in your country.
My late father, chief Manga Kouassi Williams, had private mines of diamond and gold in kono district of Sierra Leone and was also the chairman of SIERRA LEONE(S.L.M.C) Mïnning corporation. Concerning my late father, this money is the result of gold and diamond extracts from his private mines before the beginning of the civil war between the rebel forces and the gripping peace forces of ECOMOG which destroyed our country after the takeover by the rebel forces which drove out the legitimate and a p democratically elected president Mr AHMED TEJAN KABBAH. My father had already set up a plan to evacuate us (my family) my mother, my small sister and me to Abidjan in ivory Coast Dimension with our personal effects and the boxes containing the money through the means of the forces of evacuation of the United Nations which the officials did not know. My father asked us to deposit trunks in a private company of safety until he joins us after the war. During the war in my
country, and with no regard for the future of the country the plundering of the public properties of government by the rebelling forces became thier ambition , the co-operation of the Sierra Leone mines were one of the plundered and destroyed industries. My father and several others senior officials were attacked and killed by the rebels in November 2000 for their relation with the civil government of AHMED TEJAN KABBAH.
Following death of my father, and with the news of my uncle in connection in an air crash in January, our hopes of survival were completely drowned. This cruel death of my father and my uncle caused a heart failure to my mother and other complications which caused her death later in a hospital and after we had to spend a significant amount of money to save her but to no avail. Currently me and my sister of 18 years are the two children left here in Ivory Coast, are suffering in this country and without any support or hope and without any relations to cater for us, we are currently like refugees and orphans. Our only hope currently is in you and in the trunk box that late mother deposited in the security company of safety.
To this end, I humbly pray and request your assistance in the following direction;
To help me contact the security company as a bussiness associate of my father who was mandated by my late father to get the trunks sent to your country and look for a good investment company preferable the fishing company and estate investments.
It is significant to let you know that the company of safety does not know the exact contents of trunks because it was declared as family documents and artifacts.
All the documents relating to the deposits are in the hands of our pastor where me and my junior sister worship .
For your assistance, I will yield to you 20% of this money for your efforts and your Godly mind.
Finally I pray that you keep this transaction strictly confidential until the money is stictly in your custody.
Thank you for your willing heart to assist us and the lord will surely see both you and us through.
Yours sincerely.
Prince Kouassi Manga





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