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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: "ADELE COULIBALY" <adele_coulibaly1@yahoo.ca> (may be fake)
Reply-To: adele_coulibaly11@yahoo.ca
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 12:57:23 +0000
Subject: I need Your Assistance

ATTN SIR,
I am contacting you with reason that we are going to
be of a great use to each other.
My name ANA BOISSY, I am the Daugther of late chief
Bagulo BOISSY before his death, my father was the former foreign
minister of my country Angola . Before I go into further details
please be informed that I am writing without any other person's
pre-knowlegde of my contacting you.
Therefore i will appreciate same attitude to be maintained. all
through the days before the death of my father he revealed to me about a
some that loged in BANK which he deposited with my name in a BANK in
Senegal for security reasons the sum of $16m (SIXTEEN MILLION US DOLLARS)
which was his own share from a sale of Diamond when he was in the office,

After the burial of my late father, I made frantic effort on the best
way to handle this money, i sought adviSe from an attorney who advise
that I must seek for trustworthy business partner.
However, I sincerely ask for your assistance to get this fund out of
the BANK and your share for assisting me will be 20% of the total sum,
10% will be use for upsetting all the expenses incurred in the course
of concluding this venture and the remaining 70% you will help me to
invest it in your country.

I want to assure you that this transactions is 100% risk free.
Incase if you have any question do not hesitate to contact me as I
wait for your favourable response.
Best regards
ANA BOISSY.



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