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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: "nancy bah" <bah_na@hotmail.fr>
Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 11:03:45 +0200
Subject: Hellow

Hello,

I am Mrs NANCY BAH from Ivory Coast. I am a widow being that I lost my
husband a couple of years ago.My husband was serving as the chairman of
Kandgida local diamond/gold minners association, Ivory Coast until his death
. He was assassinated June 2003 by the rebels following the political
uprising.

Before his death he deposited in a security company in Africa here with a
metalic trunk box, and he told them that the content is family valuables,
the sum of US$15.Million which he told me was for the establishing of his
proposed minning industries in Seirra Leone. My main purpose of sending you
this mail is because of the way I found you and perhaps trustworthy to give
you this priority of shipping the box of money to any address that you think
is very secure and save in your country with your percentage of which we
shall chat on soon. In fact, since the death of my husband i have been
feeding from hand to mount, his brothers has been seriously chasing me
around with constant treats, trying to suppress me so that they might have
the documents of his landed properties and confiscate them. They have
successfully collected all his properties, yet they never stopped there,
they told me to surrender all bank account of my late husband, which I did,
but I never disclose to them this deposit with the security company in
Abidjan because this is where my future and destiny lies upon. The family
dose not know the existence of this deposit which we made with the security
company and they can never be aware of it.

Please if you are willing to assist me and my only son JACK , indicate your
interest in replying soonest. We are here in Abidjan.

EMAIL: bah_na1@yahoo.fr
Thanks and best regards .
Mrs.NANCY BAH


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