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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: sonia john <soniaj772003@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 05:05:33 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL


FROM : SONIA J ( MADAM)
COOPEC BANK
ABIDJAN COTE D’IVOIRE
WEST AFRICA


URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL

It is with pleasure, honour and respect that I am bringing this business proposal to you and with hope it will be for a mutual benefit to both of us. I am optimistic you wont let down the trust and confidence I will repose in you.
I am Madam SONIA J , the Director in bills exchange and audit department of Coopec Bank PLC of Abidjan Côte d’Ivoire. During a routine audit of our Bank, we discovered a dormant account of a foreign con tractor who died aboard the Egyptian airline boeing 747 that crashed on 31st October 1999 on its way from New-York to Cairo Egypt. Since then nobody has applied or come forward with claims to our Bank as a family, relation or friend to the affected disaster victim. The regulations of the Bank stipulates that any account that has not been operational for a period of two years becomes automatically dormant. Now the money of the affected foreign victim has been deposited into an imprest account of Coopec Bank.
I Madam SONIA J needs your assistance by presenting yourself to the bank or making a formal request through me to Coopec Bank PLC Abidjan as a relation to the foreign contractor whose account is worth more than twenty five million three hundred thousand dollars ($25.03m) in a domiciliary account. This money has been in his account for a period of more than ten years.
I, Madam SONIA J assure you of a risk free transaction if only you are willing to help. For your assistance to assist me transfer this money to your account and country, I will like to give you 25% of the whole money and strongly and honestly promise to offset any sundry expenses you might incur during the course of the transaction. As son as I get your reply I will proceed to give you all my contacts and all necessary informations with regards to the account.
Please your full name, address, telephone are highly needed to enable me proceed the preparation of the transfer with my contacts in the bank.
NB: Remember to keep this proposal secret and confidential because of my position in the Bank. I assure you with my position and contacts in the bank, this money will be lifted into your account hitch free.
Your urgent reply with this E-mail address.

Thanks for your full anticipated co-operation
Yours faithfully,
SONIA J .(MADAM)








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