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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: Toby Jacobs <yapisamson10@gmail.com>
Reply-To: tobyjacobs2@yahoo.fr
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2015 20:21:32 +0600
Subject: Trust and confidence


Trust and confidence

My name is Mr.Toby Jacobs, the principal treasury officer with one of the
prime banks here. I have decided to contact you through this medium based
on a business proposal, which will be of mutual benefit to both of us. I
discovered your email through comprehensive web email search on directory
so I decided to contact you.

I am the personal accounts manager to one of our late client, a national of
your country, who used to work with an oil servicing company here in Cote
d’Ivoire,the late client made a numbered time (fixed) deposited for twelve
calendar months,valued at $8.5 millions of USA Dollars in my branch.Upon
maturity, we sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got
no reply.After a month, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from
his contract employers, PETRO-CI Corporation that my client died from an
automobile accident.

On further investigation, I found out that he did not leave a will and all
attempts to trace his next of kin were fruitless. I therefore made further
investigation and
discovered that the deceased person did not declare any next of kin in all
his official documents, including his bank deposit paperwork.

This huge sum of millions of Dollar is still sitting in the bank and the
interest is rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each year. No
one will come forward to claim it. According to the law of Cote d’Ivoire,at
the expiration of 5{five} years, the money will be revert to the ownership
of the Cote d’Ivoire,I

contacted you because you have the same last name with him so that this
money will not be reverted by the government. If this request matches with
your inward intention for success and greatness, then you are urged to make
a quick response indicating your interest and readiness to participate and
work with me to make this successful.

Please observe ultmost confidentiality, and be rest assured that this
transaction would be most profitable for both of us because I shall require
your assistance to
invest my share in your country. In your return mail,please do forward your
information as listed below, to enable me put your requested information in
the account file of the deceased as his legal next of kin.

Your full name:
Your contact address:
Your phone number:
Your age:

I wait for your urgent reply.

Best Regards
Mr.Toby Jacobs

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