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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: koffidollars12 koffianan1 <koffidollars12_koffi_anan1@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 16:07:48 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: DEAL FROM KOFFI ANAN


FROM JUNION KOFFI ANAN
ABIDJAN COTE D IVOIRE Abidjan,cote d'ivoire

DEAREST

It is my pleasure to write you this mail however i feel very pleased to come to you at this important time of my life .I AM JUNION KOFFI ANAN THE son to UN SEC GEN MR KOFFI ANAN. WHO IS THE PRESENT SERVING UNITED NATION SECTARY GENERAL . I am writing you from Accra-Ghana
in west Africa. I got your contact from journalist while searching for a
foreign partner and contact. I am 25 years old and a COTE D IVOIRE national.
I am looking for an overseas business partner/investor to assist me move


and invest US$15.5,MILLION US DOLLARS which I DEPOSITED in one of the BANK OF AFRICA here IN COTE D IVOIRE WHICH I DID NOT WANT TO LET MY FATHER or any members of my family TO KNOW ABOUT THIS. I DEPOSITED THE MONEY IN A CODED ACCOUNT WITH MY NAME. BECAUSE OF MY FATHER POSETION IN GOVERNMENT OF UNITED NATION SECTARY GENERAL . been money which I was uppotune to be in position of get from my father.MR KOFFI ANAN






NOW i DONT WANT THIS MONEY TO RAISE AN EYBROW WHEN TRANSFERING THE FUNDS FOR INVESTMENT, THAT CAN NOT BE IMPLECATE HIM ON TILLE HE RESIGN FROM OFFICE OF UNITED NATION SECTARY THAT IS THE REASON WHY I JUNION KOFFIDOLLARS KOFFI ANAN HAVE DECIDED TO TRANSFER THIS MONEY TO YOUR CONUTRY OVERSEAS TO HELP ME TO ESTABLISH A VERY GOOD INDUSTRY /INVESTIMENT IN YOUR COUNTRY BEFOR MY FATHER


WILL KNOW ABOUT IT I AM NOW in Accra,the Ghanian capital city where i'm doing my degree course in geography and urban planing faculty of social sciences at KWAME NKRUMA UNIVERSITY OF GHANIAN WHY I LIVING IN COTE D IVIORE I am right now contacting you to ask for your sincere help to help me ,but before then, I hope you will not betray the honour and trust i am about to repose on you.As I need your humble and sincere assistance to help me in the investment of this fund as i have no single idea in the world of commerce and industry ,but our first objective will be to retrieve this fund into your control.



For futher informations I will forward to you all the (DOCUMENTS) regarding to the fund because I want you to keep every informations regarding this fund very confidential and secret and let me know how you would like my faimly to compensate you as regards to your (commission/percentage) for offering us this assistance.Let me have your direct phone NUMBER for easy communications.Looking forward to recieve your response for us to proceed.emidetely

URGENT REPLY PLEASE

THANKS BEST REGARDS
JUNION KOFFI ANAN.



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