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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: Traora Bakassa <traorabakassa21@yahoo.fr>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 15:36:05 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Dear VICTIMNAME




VICTIM-FULLNAME,

I thank you for your email.
Indeed I have to ask that you join me on my limps private to announce my situation to you. First of all I am called Faty Bakassa Traoré, I am the girl elder and heiress of the colonel major Bakassa dead Traoré on Sunday July 3, 2005. My father was a director general of the National office of civil protection.
HE had been stopped by soldiers of the Ivory Coast at the exit of one reception to the residence of the ambassador of France.
Tuesday June 28, 2005 at the time of the departure of colonel Luc de Revel, chief of body of Bima, the French military base, a dinner was given in the presence of some representatives of the civil authorities and military of the Ivory Coast. Dissatisfied not to be consulted on this exit, the chief of staff of the Ivory Coast, Philippe Mangou, made stop three officers, of which Bakassa Traoré my father. According to the Head of State major:
“One does not go to a foreign personality nuitamment without authorization of the seniors in rank, in the current context, with civil people who are implied in the crisis.” My father was led in a military camp with three other officers where they were violently struck. (You can check this information on www.ivoirenews.net HE is deceased 4 days after his interpellation. But before its death it gave me an envelope containing some documents and these documents indicated that the sum of US$17,5million (ten seven million dollars the USA) was deposited in a bank deprived here in Accra in Ghana or I am the heiress. I remind to you that my father made deals in the field of the coffee and of the cocoa because we are the first cocoa producer country and also also had businesses in the sector of the ores in occurrence gold. Also this money was to make me build a modern ultra hospital when I was going to finish my studies of medicine.

I have to decide to keep all this confidential and secret because nobody here in this country would be happy of knowing that I have this sum, reason for which I have to contact you so that you can assist me has to make leave my money this country towards your country and also so that me also I come so that together we can invest this money and to allow me to continue my studies of medicine. In reward of your assistance I hope to give you 15% of the total sum.

I ask you to communicate your number of DIRECT FAX to me (DEPRIVES) in order to show to you the documents which are in my possession Most important is I wish that you maintained all this confidential; to speak about it with anybody neither on your premise, nor in ivory coast until my free money EC country and also until me I come towards you i.e. in your country. Because I you signal whom we had received several times in the night my family and me the visit of men-at-arms which excavated the basic house in roof. One does not know what they seek my father was buried on Saturday July 30, 2005 and my mother as my little brothers fled in a nearby country after its burial, but they asked me to remain to return in liaison with the banker of my father what I already did. As I would wish as my money leave this country towards your country after you gave me all the insurances when with your discretion.
NB: I live in a hotel in Ghana, it is my father who has to wish that I come here for my safety I do not have telephone so that you draw to join to me you will have right A to leave a message to the receptionist so that I you recall of the reception of that Ci, understand that I does all this for obvious reasons of safety.
You will be able to join to me has this number EL - ELYON HOTEL OSU
Faty Bakassa


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