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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!

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Fraud email example:

From: jean claude Woodie <jean_claude_woodie@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 13:17:30 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: For The Purpose Of Saving Humanity


From:Jean Claude Woodie
Lome Togo Republic

Attn:The President.

Sir,

Re:For The Purpose Of Saving Humanity
I hope that this mail will not come to you as a suprise.
I greet in the name of almighty God with all sincerety.
my name is Mr.Jean Claude Woodie.I am from the republic of cotedivoire.I was the protocol officer to the present president Laurent Gbagbo.
On August 2004,all waring parties were called for peace agreement in Accra Ghana where the African Unity(A U)the United Nations and Their big wigs including secretary general koffi annan were all in attendance.as the protocol officer to the Ivoirien president i was in attendance too.agreement was reached and signed by the both parties and we all went back to our respective countries.

But instead of president Gbagbo to implement the agreed peace accord,he ordered a Leutnant colonel that was commanding the artilary to bombard the rebel areas ,and in the process of bombarding the rebels ,they mistakenly bombed the french military base that are keeping peace in the rebel controlled area,which killed eight(8)french soldiers and one(1)usa civillian,this peeved the french soldiers they were asked to distroy the Ivorien air crafts,which they did and this nearly sparked off war,although many lives were lost .
To be precise in the month of may 2004 the president deposited the sum of twenty five million united states dollars(usd25m)in the security and vault dept of a bank in togo lome.
He president Laurent gbagbo told me to enter into agreement with the Security and Vault dept to allow my(as the depositor)foreign business partners in overseas to sign out the consignment where the fund is deposited,it was done in this way to avoid the bank from having any prying eyes in the fund or even avoid the bank from knowing that there is fund inside the consignment(Metal box).This is the way which the president sends money to the Ammunition dealers,to avoid the fund been traced to him.

So when i had the knowledge that the reason why he did that is
to give the money to armunition agent to purchase arms for him,so when the united nations last November 2004 banned armunition from comming into cotedivoire,i was ordered by the president to go to lome togo with the deposit agreement to invite foreign partner to come and sign out the fund and use it to buy armunition and ship them to Abidjan,cotedivoire for the purpose of war which resultant effect is death especially the innocent ones are the one to die.

when i looked at the whole situation,i said no, i will not accomplish this for Mr.president,i can not contribute to what will exterminate the life of innocent citizens,i oppose war,rancour and killings.i decided to tell mr.president that i have lost the documents.
and he asked how i managed to lost the documents,i told him that i was attacked by thieves on my way comming to lome togo and all my belongings including the deposit certificate was stolen by the thieves,as i travelled by road,but it was all lies that i told Mr.President,this is the only way to run away from him (mr.president) from executing his war plans.
But now he has told me to come back to Abidjan Cote Divoire,i refused to go back as he may execute me .

what i want you to do is to come and sign out this consignment as the foreign partner,and you use this money in a viable business of your interest,may be real estate investment of buying of companies and shares,nothing will happen to you,it is not the presidents name that was used to deposit the fund,it is my own name that was used to deposit the consignment,but what is wriiten in the certificate of deposit agreement is that only the foreign partner of the depositor will sign out the consignment,so i want you now to act as the foreign partner to me(Jean Claude Woodie) who is the depositor.
The document is intact(i.e Certificate of Deposit),if you agree to act as the foreign partner and invest this fund,i will give you the documents which will now prove that you are actually the foreign partner to the depositor.
please reply urgently ,and dont entertain any fear at all as this transaction is 100% risk free.

kindest regard,
Jean Claude Woodie








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