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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: bidemi kamara <bidemi1@btinternet.com>
Reply-To: bidemikamara@cantv.net
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 11:00:49 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: From Miss Bidemi Kamara.


>From Miss Bidemi Kamara.
































Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire.
































West Africa.
































Avenue 12
Rue Reine Abla Poku,
































32 Bp 8753 Abj 23, Cote D'Ivoire.

































































My Dearest
one,

































































It is my pleasure to write you after consideration, since I can not
be able to see you face to face, at first, please I need your help. I am
Miss
bidem Kamara, the only Daughter of late Mr & Mrs Richard Kamara,
from Cote
D'Ivoire. (I am 22years of age.) My father was a liability Cocoa and
Gold
merchant in Abidjan Cote D'Ivoire before his untimely death. After his
business
trip to Tunisia, to nagociate on a cocoa and gold business he wanted to
invest
in Tunisia, a week after he came back from Tunisia, he got an accident
with my
mother of which my mother died instantly but my father died five days
after in a
private hospital. On that faithful afternoon, I didn t know that my
father was
going to leave me after I had earlier lost my mother, but before he gave
up the
ghost, it was as if he knew he was going to die. He my father, (MAY HIS
SOUL
REST IN PERFECT PEACE) he called me to his bed side and told me that he
deposited the sum of ($3,500,000.00) Three Million Five Hundred Thousand
US
Dollars in a bank here in Cote D'Ivoire.

































































That the money was meant for
his cocoa and Gold business he wanted to establish in Tunisia, according
to my
father he deposited the money in a fixed suspense account using my name
as the
next of kin, He instructed me to seek for a reliable and trust worthy
business
partner for my life time investment abroad. Now I have succeeded in
locating the
deposit documents and the bank where this money is here in Abidjan, Cote

D'Ivoire. Due to war in my country Cote D'Ivoire., I am now seeking for
your
assistance to help me transfer this money out from my country Cote
D'Ivoire to
your account abroad so that we should invest it in any meaningful and
lucrative
business in your country because this is my only hope in life. I am
willing to
offer you 15% of the total fund if only you can help me out of my
present
predicame.

































































I seek your assistance in the follwing ways:

































































(1.) To
provide a bank account where this money can be transfered into.
































(2.) To make
arrangements for me to come over to your country after the successful
transfering of this money into your account, to come and further my
education.
































(3.) To help invest this money in a profitable business since I am
only 22yrs of age and do not know much about business.
































(4.) To sponsor me
transfer this money into your account,
































(5.) I want you to promise me that you
are not going to betray me after the money gets into your account.

































































The
worst part of it is that my uncle is trying to kill me over this money
because I
refused to hand him over the documents covering this money, He has sold
all my
father's landed properties including his cars which rightful belong to
me and
now he want me to hand over the banking document of my father in my
possesion
which I refused. Now he said that he will have this money by all means
even if
it means killing me, so because of this I ran away from home and hide in
a
church,pending when this money will be transfered so that I can leave
the
country for my safty.
































Thank's and God bless you.

































































Yours sincerely,


































































Miss Bidemi Kamara

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