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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: "Gilbert Ogodo" <gilbertogodo@outgun.com>
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 02:38:18 +0800
Subject: My Dear

From:Gilbert Ogodo
Rue des 15 Abidjan-
Ivory Coast Africa
telephone:+22508022382

My Dear,

Please permit me inform you my desire to make relationship with you, i pray God direct me and i contact you with my faith and confident and i beleive you can help me out of my condition, i hope you are a reliable and honest person i can trust with my heart.My name is Gilbert Ogodo,i from Ivory Coast,i am 20years and ophan since i have no parents,My Father was a serving director of the Cocoa exporting board when he was alife , he was poisoned to death by his business associate on a business trip.My mother died when I was a baby and since then, my father took me so special.before my father died in a private hospital here,when my father was sick he review to me about money he deposit in fix account with a prime bank here in Ivory Coast,sum of (US$8,000,000.00 ).My father told me that he deposit this money for importation of cocoa processing machine from abroad.now my father is dead and my family relative are after to my dear life and i need to leave this country before they kill me.Please i need you help me transfer the money out of here my country to your country for sefe keeping ,i want it be secured for my future and you help me i come your country and stay with your family for my education ,as soon as the bank transfer the money to your country in your care my problems in this country since my father died,i don't have person around here i can trust .I need you invest the money for my future .please i need your honestto save this money and my life and keep everything confidential to avoid enemy come after my life.Please reply me to (gilbertogodo@yahoo.com)
May God bless you.

Yours Sincerly

Gilbert Ogodo.






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