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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: v_guei222@terra.com.mx
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 12:00:50 +0000
Subject: Miss Victoria Guei

Miss Victoria Guei
Abidjan Cote D' Ivoire.
West Africa.
Suddenly you got this mail and may be doubting and wondering how I got your
mail contact. Well, I got your contact from an operator of an internet services
in the Chambers of Commerce here in Abidjan, Cote d' Ivoire, hence I decided
to write you, though I did not mention the transaction to her.

I am Victorai Guei, the only daughter of my mother wife of the late PRESIDENT
ROBERT GUEI from Abidjan, the Republic of Cote d`ivoire who was assassinated
during the last political problem in cote D`Ivoire in the year 2002. To
be direct, my mother was the Predident first wife but my father divorced
my mother because she was not educated. Since my mother did not remary my
father set aside some money which he deposited in a Security and Finance
Company for us before he died.Unfortunately, my mother died a year after
the death of my father. we thought that the political problem here will
stop so that we can invest the fund here but because of the current crisis
again we have decided to move the fund out of this country for investment.
For further details, you can see www.bbcnews.com or www.bbc.co.uk/french
get details of the current political crisis here in Abidjan.

We need your mutual assistance to move our fund to your Country for investment.
To be very honest and sincere with you, since the sudden death of my late
parents, we have contacted two people from Denmark and Greece to assist
us in this very matter, but due the fraudulent activites going on in the
world through the internet today and otherwise, all the people we contacted
felt we are not for real.

Were you really come in is for you to assist me and my only brother Jacob
to move the fund from here. We will also need your advice on areas of investment
when finally the funds get to your end. The total money deposited in my
brothers name in a Finance Security company here which we want to move out
right now is US$8 million (US$ Eight MILLION)
Please get back to me to enable us work out modes of shippment or transfer
of the fund to you directly as we may agree.

Yours truly,

Miss.Victoria Guei.

See the sites bellow to confirm my mail.

1) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/930254.stm>
(2) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/world/africa/2268110.stm>
(3) http://www.liberiaorbit.org/lonewsgueiout.htm>
(4) http://www.afrol.com/News2002/civ027_guei_killed.htm>
(5) http://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/ivorycoast/cotdiv0801.htm

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