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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: agahta bela <ag_b01@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 12:57:46 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: From Agahta. Bela.


Dearest VICTIMNAME,
Thank's so very much for your response to my mail, how are you? hope all is well with you. Meanwhile, it has been a long time i sent you an email telling you about my condition and also asking for assistance to me. For a very long time now, i have been epecting to receive your response to my mail to you. We according to what you just told me about what you have encountered before from here Cote D'Ivoire, you have to know one thing, a lot of things are happening here due to political problems going on here. So if you tell me about what you just told me, i will not dout you but one thing you should bear in mind is that due to so many bad ones in the world today, no one can identify the good ones again.

But my advice to you is this in anything you are doing in life, you have to fear God first because is the only one who knows the mind of every one of which in that case before you go into any transaction with any one, you have to call the God first and ask him if the business is going to favour you or not. Meanwhile, what i want to tell you now is this may be is God almighty who brought some one like you who has the mind of help to me over this tansaction because before i contacted you for this, i entered into praying and fasting asking God to provide me some one that fears God who will help me claim the box the box that contains this money in question out from the security company where my late father deposited the money. Secondly, how i wish you would have voluntered yourself in helping me over this transaction by coming down here in Abidjan to see every thing by yourself so that both of us will go together to the security company in order to claim the box by ourselves
and do arrangement on how to travell together with you to London in order to complete my education while you will take care of the business inwhich we are going to use the money to invest on untill i finish my education.

I promised to give you my picture on my next mail to you after hearing from you. I want you to understand that what i just told you about my life is the true ordeal of my condition, and you will never regreat of helping an orphan like me due to it is a miraclous thing that God provided some one like you to assist me so i will like you to keep your trust as i have it in mind for you. Please while responding to this mail, i will like you to send me your private telephone number so that we can talk very well on phone and also give you more informations about this transaction. Am waiting urgently to hear from you, thank's and God bless you.
Your's sincerely,
Agahta.



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