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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: "Maryam Kuduku" <maryamkuduk@msn.com>
Reply-To: maryamkuduku@yahoo.fr
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 12:23:59 +0000
Subject: From Madam Maryam Kuduku.

>From Madam Maryam Kuduku.
Deux plateaux.
Abidjan,C.I .

Dearest Respected One,

It is my pleasure to write you after much consideration since we can not
meet you face to face for now untill further notice,I am the wife of late
Dr Ken B.Kukudu,from ,Zulu region in republic of South Africa (S.A) my
husband
was a limited liability cocoa and Gold merchant in SouthAfrica.

Before his death after his business trip to Abidjan-Cote d'ivoire west
-Africa
to negotiate on a cocoa business on 6th of February 2003 a week after he
came back from Abidjan, he was assasinated with my first son by unknown
assassins which my son dead in stantly but my husband dead two week after
in the hospital , on that faithful afternoon I didn't know that my husband
is going to leave me after I lost my jovial and intelligent son.But before
he gave up the ghost it was as if he knew he was going to die He Ken Tukur
my lovely husband ( may his soul rest in perfect peace ) he disclosed to
me that he deposited the sum of USD$ 10,000,000.00 million dollars with
a bank in Abidjan -Cote d'ivoire that the money was meant for his cocoa
business he wanted to invest in Abidjan-Cote D'ivoire .

Though according to my husband he told me to take care of the money for
the future sake of his other children, so he instructed me to seek for a
life time investor abroad for a genuine investment. As a result of this
assassination we cannot stay in South-Africa now.

I have succeeded in locating and confirming the existence of the fund in
Abidjan -Cote d'ivoire and also with most honest and confidentiality,I am
soliciting your assistance to help me on how to transfer this money from
the bank in Abidjan Cote d'ivoire to your bank account abroad so that we
will invest in a lucrative business in your country,You will be given the
previledge to relate with the depositing bank here to verify the existence
of this fund, Please you should understand that this fund is our only hope
in life presently.

I am waiting anxiously to hear from you so that we can discuss the
modalities
of this transaction.

Although I and my remaining Son Kevin Jr. have decided to give you a
negotiable
percentage from the total sumof $10million and i promise that we shall
go into investmentship together.Please understand that my present situation
is too bad that i can not continue this way when i have this fund,i need
your help with a clean intention to help me,besides the political situation
in cote D' Ivoire is getting unbearable,anything might happen anytime.Please
kingly contact me on the above email address immediately for more discussion
and further details . Thank you and God bless you,looking forward to your
very urgent response.

Please do contact me upon the reciept of this mail as soon as you can with
your detail contacts so that we can establish our contacts and proceed.
Waiting your kind and urgent response.

Best regards,
Madam Maryam Kuduku.


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