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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: john saraki <johnsaraki1@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 13:02:20 +0100 (BST)
Subject: ASSISTANCE AND URGENT CONSIDERATION


>From :John Saraki.
Abidjan-Cote D'Ivoire.

Greeting,

It is our pleasure to write you after much consideration since we can not see you face to face.

I being the only son of my father (Late kamani Saraki from from Sierra Leone). I got your contact from internet, my sources of your contact gave me the courage and confidence to rely on you. I am 19 years old. My father was a limited liability Diamond and Gold, Cocoa, merchant before his death, precisely a week after his return from Ivory Coast where he went to negotiate for a Diamond and Gold, Cocoa business.

He died as a result of a car accident, (may his soul rest in peace) but before he died, as if he knew He disclosed to us that he deposited the sum of ($15,500,000) Fifteen million, five hundred thousand united state dollar in a private security company in Ivory coast, that the money was meant from the Diamond and Gold, Cocoa business he wanted to establish in Abidjan.

Although according to my father he deposited the money a private security company, but decleard it as AFRICAN ART WORKS He gave us,

(1) deposit certificates,
(2) Reciepts of payments,
(3) Agreement papers, so that we can retrieve this funds.

We have arrived in Abidjan (Ivory coast) located the security company and comfirmed the item. Now with most honest and confidentiality we solicite ask for your assistance to retrieve and move this funds into an account in abroad so that we would invest it in any lucrative business which you would introduce us into over
there as you can see, this money is our only hope in life, so we would like to invest it wisely.

You can contact us immediately through this email addres so we will discuss the modality of this transaction. Mean while we are prepared to offer you 15% of this total sum for your kind assistance immediately we clearred and move the fund into your account.

Thank you and may God bless us all,

John Saraki


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