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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: michelle kouassi <mickouassi46@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <mickouassi1@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 22:41:01 +0200
Subject: Hi With One Love



Hi With One Love
Dear Respectful,

I am Miss Michelle Kouassi,the only remaining daugther of late Mr.Williams Kouassi.Truely i don't know you physically but I saw your profile and I was convince within my heart that I can trust you without fearing, so therefore,I am writting to you with every respect due to your personality merited as very influential and strategic because i want this to be urgent and strictly confidential.

I lost my parents in a ghasty road accident few months ago in which my mother,my little brother and Carol my junior sister died instantly. He my father was hospitalised few days before his death.My Father was holding a strategic Economic post as the C.E President Board of Producers and exporters of Cocoa and coffee in our country and as result,he was a target even to his own blood brothers.So please,the reason why I contacted you is,before my Father died,as if he knew what will happen later behind him, there were some documents he secretly directed to me about his investment budget worth of US$15.5Million dollars which he deposited in one of the well known bank here on behalf of his foriegn business partner for foreign investments.By saying,i will like to make you my Next of Kin and trustee and to present you to the bank as my late father's foreign investment partner for the money to be transferred to your bank account, so that it can be put into use in your country on joint investment before i could join you over there.To tell you, since the death of my parents,his brothers/relatives has been seriously chasing me around with constant treats,to suppress and eliminate me and take over all my father's properties because i have refused to hand them over my late father's properties.According to our blind custom and tradition,a female child cannot inherite her late parents properties.

Now,they have successfully collected all properties from me, yet they never stoped there, but going so far to treat my life brings fear to me now,i need your urgent help and assistance because this is where only everything he laboured for in his life time remains for me.Based on this reasons,I believe I can trust you like i have said before, Show me your goodwill to give me this assistance so that I can handover to you all the documents about the money.I will like to discuss with you about your commission on this assistance if you wish.
I plead and will appreciate your kindness in order to actualise this immense co-operation with you as i have wished very urgently.

I await your very urgent answer.
Yours Faithfully, Miss Michelle Kouassi
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