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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: "Daziz Kone" <daziz55@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: dazizkone@voila.fr
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:24:02 +0000
Subject: Please reply me back

From: Mr. Daziz Kone
Email: dazizkone@voila.fr

REQUEST FOR INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP
Dearest,

Compliments of the day,


Permit me to inform you of our desire of going into business relationship
with you. I know this mail may come to you as a surprise, since we have not
known or written before but i am totally convinced that you will be capable
in assisting me in this transaction.


Introducing myself , I am from Cote D'ivoire in west africa and my name is
Daziz Koné 25 years of age the son of the late MR AND MRS Koné My father was
a gold and cocoa merchant based in Accra, Ghana and Abidjan (Ivory Coast )
he was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their business
trips. Before the death of my father in a private hospital here in Abidjan
Cote D'Ivoire (Ivory Coast ). He secretly called me to his bedside and told
me that he has a sum of USD$16,000,000,00M (Sixteen Million United States
Dollars) deposited in a Bank here in Abidjan -Cote Ivoire,he told me that he
used my name as the next of kin when he deposited the money. He also
explained to me that it was because of this his wealth that he was poisoned
by his business associates, he advised me to seek for a foreign partner in a
country of my choice either in europe ,America or Asia where there is no war
or strife and transfer this money and use it for investment purpose such as
expansion of existing business and real estate management overseas, this
according to him was because of the agreement he made with the bank on the
day he deposited this money, in this agreement, he stated to them that the
money will be transferred to his foreign partners account overseas for the
implementation of a business project however he did not indicate anybody's
name as the foreigner.


As a result of this the bank made it to be mandatory that the money will be
transferred in accordance to this deposit agreement which they made with my
father, this is the reason why i contacted you to assist me in the following
ways as my father did not indicate anybody's name as the beneficiary.


1- To assist me in providing an account where this money can be transferred
in your country.
2)- To make arrangement for I and my younger sister Yéna, to come over to
your country to continue my education and also invest this money into any
good lucrative investment.


Moreover, I am willing to offer you 20% of the total sum as compensation for
your effort/ Input after the successful transfer of this fund into your
account overseas. If you are willing and able to assist me , please send to
me your telephone and fax numbers to enable me send to you the prove
documents showing the deposit of this money at the bank after which i will
send the contact of the bank to you for you to contact them and know how the
money will be transferred to your bank account. please Reply me via the
above email address.


God bless you as I look forward to hearing from you.
May the peace of the lord almighty be with you.
Regards
Daziz and Yena Koné.

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