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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: serious_partner2@terra.com.mx
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 11:11:33 +0200
Subject: FROM DR. MOHAMMED

FROM :Dr. Kone Mohammed.
Contract Review Panel Chairman,
Abidjan Cote D 'Ivoire.


Dear Friend,

LETTER FOR URGENT ASSISTANCE ON FUND TRANSFER

First,i must solicit your strictest confidence in this
transaction.This by viture of its nature as being
utterly confidential and TOP SECRET.

You have been recomended by an associate who assured
me of your confidence and your ability, reliability to
prosecute a transaction of great magnitude involving a
pending buisness transaction requiring maximum
committment and trust.

We are top officials of the Federal Government
contract reveiw panel which i am the chairman
controlling both the international and local
contractors, who are intrested in importation
of goods into our country with funds which are
presently trapped here in Cote d'Ivoire.In other to
commence this business we solicit your assistance to
enable us transfer into your account the said trapped
funds which will has to do with bank to bank transfer.

The source of this fund is as follows:During the last
regime here of General Rorbert Geui in Cote d'Ivoire
some government officials set up companies and awarded
themselves contracts which were grossly over invoiced
in various ministries and parastatals.The government
set up a contract review panel and we have identified
a lot of inflated contracts funds which are presently
Deposited in a BANK here in Abidjan,Cote d'Ivoire .

However,by virture of my and our position as civil
servants and members of the panel,we cannot aquire
this money in our name.I have therefore ,been
delegated because of my position and as amatter of
trust by my colleagues of the panel to look
for an overseas patner into whose account we would
transfer the total sum of USD$20,500,000.00 [TWENTY
MILLION,FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS].

Hence i onbehalf of my colleagues are writting you
this letter in this regards.We agreed to share the
money thus on your reciept and confirmation of this
money:

[1] 20% FOR THE ACCOUNT OWNER [YOU]
[2] 80% FOR US [THE OFFICALS]

It is from the 80% that we wish to commense the
importation business.Please ,note that this
transaction is 100% safe and we hope to commense the
transaction latest seven[7 ]days from the date of the
receipt of the following information bellow.

[A] COMPANY'S NAME BENEFICIARY OF ACCOUNT.

[B] YOUR PERSONAL TELEPHONE NUMBER AND FAX NUMBERS.

The above information will enable us commense the
transfer of this funds into your account in your
country without delay and also to open an account in
your name.We are looking forward to doing this
business with you and solict your confidentiality in
this transaction.

Please acknowledge the receipt of this letter using
the above email address,telephone number and fax
number.I will bring you into the complete picture of
this pending project when i hear from you.

Yours Faithfully
Dr. Kone Mohammed
Private email m.baki@ziplip.com
Direct line 225 06014696.


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