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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: Susan Mel <susanmel.k2@outlook.fr>
Reply-To: <susanmel97@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 2 May 2014 18:07:24 +0100
Subject: From: Miss Susan and brother Paul Mel.



From: Miss Susan and brother Paul Mel.
My name is Miss.Susan Mel and my younger brother Paul,We are from Mali adopted by Late Mr.George Kante Mel,
We resides in Ivory Coast we need your assistance to secure our inheritance which I and my younger brother inherited from our late adopted father before his sudden death the sum of us$ 7,500,000.00 (Seven Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars).What we need from you is to provide your account information, your telephone number,your full house address where the money has to be transferred into for investment in your country.
While I and my younger brother will further our education when we join you because the wife of our adopted Late father.Mr.George Kante Mel is not happy about the money we inherited from the family due to religion differences,
Therefore we need to transfer the money out of here as fast as possible.We will send you the contact of the bank when we hear from you and also we will offer you 10% of the total money for providing account and assistance and 30% of any profit made out of the money when invested in your country. We will discuss more when we hear from you. Call us +225 54080948 for more discussion.
RegardsMiss.Susan Mel and brother Paul.

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