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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: willfred ndoni <willfred8ndoni@yahoo.ca>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 06:27:36 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: URGENT PLEASE


Dear respectful one,

Permit me to inform you of my desire of going intobusiness relationship with you. I know this mail may come to you as a surprise, since we have not known or
written before. Introducing myself, I am Mr willfred ndoni 18 years of age the only son of the late Mrand Mrs Richard ndoni ,my father was a Gold and cocoa merchant based in Accra, Ghana and Abidjan (Ivory Coast), he was poisoned to death by his businessassociates on one of their business trips. Before thedeath of my father on 29th June 2000 in a private hospital here in Abidjan. He secretly called me on his
bedside and told me that he has a sum of USD$17.5M (Seventeen Million Five Hundred Thousand U.SD$), deposited in Bank in (Abidjan Côte d’Ivoire, that he used my
name as his only son for the next of kin in depositingthe fund.

He also explained to me that it was because of thiswealth that he was poisoned by his business associates, that I should seek for a foreign partner in a country of my choice where I will transfer this money and use it for investment purpose such as
expansion of his existing cocoa business and real estate management here on how best to transfer this money to overseas please.
I am humbly seeking your assistance in the following ways :

1-To assist me in providing an account of yours wherethis fund can quietly be transferred into.
2-To serve as the guardian of this fund since I am
still in the university.
3-To make arrangement for me to come over to your country to further my education and to help me secure a residential permit in your country. Moreover, I am willing to offer you 15% of the total sum as compensation for your effort/input after the successful transfer of this fund into your nominated account overseas, while 5% will be set aside to offset any expenses we may incure. Furthermore, you can indicate your option towards assisting me as I believe that this transaction would be concluded within the shortest possible time if you signify interest toassist me.

NB : Please contact me immediately you receive this message through this Above email address if you are interested.

God bless.
Yours sincerely,
willfred ndoni





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