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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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Fraud email example:

From: casarate MAYILVAHINI <casaratemayi8@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: casaratemayi05@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 14:01:44 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Dear friends


Dear Friend,
Compliment of the season to you and your family. My name is
MAYILVAHINI MURUGAJYAN CASARATE Indian by origin and Ivorian citizen by marriage abduction. I want you to read this mail very carefully with and open mind, and may God bless you as you are following it up on
humanitarian basis.

I am an India woman who got married to a military General in Ivorian
army. Late Gen. LAJA CASARATE. who died of rescent in November 24th
2005 in a military hospital, although some of his colleagues and friends said he was killed by a witch craft from his family.

I have only One son, with my late husband and whose name is BONNE
CASARATE, my main aim of writing you this message is that immediately the
doctor announced that my late husband has given up, his so called
brothers came and drove me and my son out of the house and lock up the
place. And they claimed that my late husband has a second wife that had two
children for him before he got married to me.

They insisted that me and my son should go back to India and stay
till the family would decide on the sharing of our property. This was a
very big shock to me that almost damged my health, i can not go back to
India because my parents refused me to marry my late husband initially.
But as a young lady that was in love, i had to run away from India with
my late husband down to Abidjan- Cote d' ivoire when he was a Captain
in 1987. Then my husband led an Ivorian Military troupe on a mission to
India.

It is true that my parents collected money from a rich family in
India, who wanted me to get married to their son. I had to run away to my
late husband in Abidjan - Cote d' ivoire, until this year june when i
travelled to india, everyone disowned me, no one wanted to talk to me.
Few months ago, my husband brought one box into the house and told me
that the box was seized from the rebel in Buake, and he opened the box
in my presence, which was full of United States Dollars, he told me
that the box contained USD20million and we both went to keep it somewhere.
His plans was to use the money to contest for the forthcoming
presidential election in 2006 before his death. None of his family member is
aware of this fund except myself and my son Bonne.

I am hereby seeking your advice and your assistance on how to get
this funds out of this country and also want to seek advice if there is
any profitable business that i can invest this money on in your country.
Please kindly keep this confidential and may God bless.

Best regards,
MAYILVAHINI MURUGAJYAN CASARATE.



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