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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: Greaber Kone <greaberk18@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <greaberk@yahoo.fr>
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 12:46:59 +0200
Subject: INVESTMENT FUNDS.



INVESTMENT FUNDS.
Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship with you. Though I have not met with you before but I believe, one has to risk confiding in succeed sometimes in life.

I am Mr. Greaber Kone. Son of late Mr. Isaa Kone, who was murdered by the Zimbabwean veterans and irate black people.I am 19years of age I am writing you from Ivory Coast. If well executed as your contact is via ONLINE INTERNET NETWORK through the consultancy directory during my search for a reliable and honest person to transact this business with. I write to solicit for your special assistance to a family shattered by a tyrannical government led by a dictator and his (ZANU-PF) ruling party-president Robert Mugabe. Because of land and farm land crisis in Zimbabwe, the government secretly sponsored the war veterans and some irate party members to dispossess the land being occupied by white farmers. This action has led to the killing of some members of opposition party including my Father (Isaa Kone)..

My mother died when I was a baby and since then my father took me so special. Before the death of my father in a private hospital he secretly called me on his bed side and told me that he deposited the sum of Fifteen million four hundred Thousand United States Dollars.(US$15.4m) in one Financial Institution here in Ivory Coast and he wanted to use it for investment abroad.I should seek for a foreign partner in a country of my choice who will help me claim and transfer this money into his bank account so that i will start a new life over there with the person and continue my education that is why I want this fund to be transferred into your private account so that you will assist me to invest it in your country. Hence, if you agree to assist me, i will be pleased to offer you 20% of the money for your assistance, 5% will be for the possible expenses incurred in the process of this transaction, while 75% will be for our investment in your country through your assistance. I need your urgent and confidential response.

Upon your immediate response, I will immediately arrange and send to you all the information's that will empower your good self in finalizing the transaction with the Financial Institution here in Ivory Coast. And also further information about you is very necessary for me as i can not play on this.
Best regards

Greaber Kone.

Waiting for your prompt and positive response, please read about our problems in Zimbabwe from the link below.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/918781.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/715001.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1063785.stm
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