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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: miss Anne Gbagbo <Info@ivorycoast.org>
Reply-To: annegbagbo1@gawab.com
Date: Mon, 02 May 2011 12:27:08 -0400
Subject: I NEED YOUR URGENT REPLY

Dear ,

I am Ms. Anne Gbagbo from Ivory Coast. The daughter of the
ousted president of Ivory coast. My father refused to hand over power to his rival who defeated him in the last presidential election held in my country, irrespective of the fact that the international community and the African confirmed him looser. As a result of this last run-off election in our country, there has been problems had resulted to the shift of power to the
opponent. He (my father) was captured by the French forces some days ago and was handed over to his opponent for peace to reignin my country.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/13/ivory-coast-laurent-gbagbo-capture.
And currently am in exile in a country which I will not
disclose to you for the fear of the unknown for now.. However
dear, as I was searching the web, I saw your profile that speaks
good of you which present the ideal person that I needed to be
of good help to me hence by the special grace of God we can plan
for a genuine long term relationship. This is why I decided to
confine the following secret of my situation to you. Before this
post election problems, my father deposited a huge sum of money
in a financial institution which I will later inform you about,
and I needed a good and trustworthy individual to help evacuate
this money and channel it into a good business before the new
government starts freezing his accounts and assets. Then, after
this the person will take 30% of the total money transferred .
However, after much deliberation with my father’s lawyer he
asked me to seek for a good and willing foreigner who can help
to evacuate this money that it is only a foreigner that can
help to do this. He further stated that as far as my father had
been overpowered by the opponent, that this money in the bank
will be confiscated into government treasury and as such that
it is only a foreigner that can help to claim this money as my
legal husband. That without it, we stand the chances to loose
this money to the coffers of the present government. However as
a matter of fact, the political situation in the country is
not guaranteed so I have a very short period to evacuate the
money or forfeit it after the new government starts operating
fully.
Please dear, after going through this mail and you deem it wise to help me out of this situation; please respond to this clarion call through my email address annegbagbo1@gawab.com so as
to enable me inform you on the next line of action.I will send you my picture later upon receiving a confirmation from you to help me in this transaction.
Thanks and God bless you.
Please you can reach me on this email address
annegbagbo1@gawab.com
Best Regard
Anne Gbagbo




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