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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: Mariam Boku <mariam.boku02@yahoo.fr>
Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 00:13:29 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: FROM MARIAM


Dear

Infact we do not know how to express our joy for your kind response to our proposal. we believe it is a God sent affair,we are very happy when we recieve your mail. Infact I told myself that my dream has come into reality.Thank you very much for your reply may God bless you and all your family and give you long live.But i am living in church because of a man of God so that i can be protected i hope here is enough for me for the moment until you can help me..

As I briefly told you in our previous mail I am called Mariam Boku the only daugther and the only child of late Mr.Phillippe Boku .My father was a cofe and cocoa farmer in Cote D'Ivoire since the death of my father because of circumstance beyong our control not only that to have an eye close to the bank where this money in question is been deposited.

I presented myself to the concern securite company with the documents which I received from my father before he died which the company issued to him,it was confirmed authentic by the company here authomatically proving me to be the legitimate next of kin to the fund in their custody .They now asked me to provide a foreign partner as an investment manager due to the clause which my father appended on his agreement with the company that if I survice him that I should provide a foreign partner if I am not up to the age of 20 years.That was where we were stucked and was forced to solicit for your assistance in this regards as our foreign partner/beneficiary.

As you have promised us fully that you are behind us and want to help us in this transaction,plz assure us that you will not tell anybody about this deal for now and keeping in a high confidentiality for security reasons,we are giving you our word that you will never regrate meeting us ,so far you are nice and honest with us.This transaction is 100% risk free as we have all the relating document as proof for our claim. We will need your personal details information.e.g a scan copy of your international passport or driving lience,full postal and residential address,Occupation and place/date of birth, then your telephone number for record purposes and easy communication and to submit it to the bank for updating as our investment manager/foreign partner thereafter you have to contact this company here immediately because they have been expecting us to come up with our foreign partner. So this morning after replying back to you I will go to the bank o inform them about you, so
that thye will be on alert to hear from you.You are to call them or email for confirmation and from there they will open communication with and to let you know of any other requirement needed for the transfer and how it will work.This will be done on our behalf and as our old family friend and investment manager to be regarding this money with them.

Here is the company contact below:

NORD EAST SECURITY COMPANY
Address:Rue Joseph Anoma,Plateau
Postal address: 01 BP 4132 01
Abidjan Cote d ivoire
EMAIL: Info_nssc@fastmail.fm
: Dr_frankwood@yahoo.fr
Tel: 0022509519999
contact person:Dr.Frank Wood
Pease try to mail me back after contacting the bank immediatly.

Boku Mariam



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