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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: "monica kuku" <monicakuku2300@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: mrsmonica200@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 13:52:01 +0200
Subject: God Is Able!!!

Dear friend,
After much prayer i decided to send you this mail in hopes that we can work
together.
I am Mrs Monica Kuku ,the wife of Col. Kuku Amanze ,my husband was the
cousin and aide to the late president of ivory coast General Robert Guei, Am
soliciting your help for movement of my late husband funds which is
deposited in a bank in Cotonou Benin republic. Its not easy to write this
mail to a total stranger, buy i have to because i have strong believe that
there is no harm in contacting you. Am in a refugee camp and my condition is
very bad for me to keep quite.
I have all the documents to facilitate the movement of the funds to you
directly , i will like you to treat this as personal and strictly
confidential. you will only pose as the next of kin to my late husband and
all documents will be legally changed in your name and funds transferred, i
will have to go into fund management agreement with you
once i hear from you then after we legalize the agreement then we will
proceed.
You will have 20% share of the total funds after funds arrive to you and i
will also like you to advice me on investment for this funds in your country
and help me come over to your country once funds is transferred to you and
80% will be for me. the amount involved is forty five million united states
dollars (USD 45,000,000) only.
I cannot give more detail until i receive your acceptance and then i will
give you all details regarding this and how we will move.
Note that this is strictly confidential and no risk on both sides. It will
take about 2 weeks to finalize all this once we start.
Am awaiting your reply to enable me open up all details on trust to you and
hope that you will not disappoint me.
Thank you and God bless you,
Mrs Monica Kuku

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