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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: collins edwards <collinsedwards10@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <collinsedwards1@yahoo.fr>
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 23:14:05 +0200
Subject: FROM COLLINS AND ANN EDWARDS



FROM COLLINS AND ANN EDWARDSE-mail: collinsedwards1@yahoo.frTELEPHONE: +22507408677DANANI REFUGEE/ASYLUM CAMPABIDJAN, REP OF IVORY COAST Good day, I am COLLINS EDWARDS and my younger Sister is Miss ANN EDWARDS. I am 20 years of age and she is 17. We are the only children of late Dr. and Mrs. GEORGE EDWARDS. Our father was a very wealthy farmer in the economic capital of ZIMBABWE, we were evacuated by the Mugabe government when he forcefully seized our farm claiming that as WHITE FARMERS, we do not have a place in his country. It was in this process that our father died of heart attack and we fled the country with our mother to this country Cote d'Ivoire in West Africa for our safety and we are presently in the asylum camp. Our mother died here in Cote d’Ivoire last year but before her death, she handed over to us the documents to a deposit that our late father made in a security company in BELGIUM for our security if anything happens to him but due to our status here as refugee/asylum seekers, we cannot be able to handle this transfer on our own as we are inexperienced to business knowledge and cannot be able to travel out of here for now. For security reasons also, our late father stated in the agreement document he entered with the security company that the consignment will be claimed by his foreign partner whose information will be forwarded to them by me as his next of kin. It is in this sense that we are contacting you to stand as Foreign partner to assist us in providing a foreign account where this money can be transferred into for safe guarding and investment until we can be able to leave this country to be with you.

The amount deposited by our late father is Twenty Eight million, Five hundred thousand United State Dollars (USD28.5Million) in a SECURITY COMPANY in BELGIUM as family valuables/arts work for security reasons, and he used my name as his only son for the next of Kin in depositing of the funds. We are willing to offer to you 30% of the total Money and also a negotiable percentage for the investment project. We will forward all the documents concerning this deposit to you on confirming to us your interest to assist us in this our situation and we believe that this transaction would be concluded as soon as possible if you signify interest to assist us so that we can be able to leave this country due to the political condition of the country which is not favourable to us.

Furthermore, Please,Sir, if you think you can be of an assistance to this our problem try to
contact us on our private e-mail addresse above or call us on our phone number +22507408677 for more discussion and modalities of this transaction and Please, Help us to get out of this
terrible situation and our Almigthy God will bless you.

Waiting to hear from you soon.

Best regards, Collins & Ann Edwards.
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