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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: micheal delta <michealdelta1@yahoo.fr>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 12:42:46 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Thanks for your response


Dear ,
How are you doing? With hope you are fine.
Before I proceed,I will tell you more about myself,I am Mister Micheal Delta the only son of late Mr and Mrs Felix Delta . My father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant in Abidjan , the economic capital of Ivory coast, my father was poisoned to dearth by his business associates on one of their outings on a business trip ,still single and was in my first year in the university when my father died which made it impossible for me to continue with my education,that is why I am contacting you so that once the money is transfered into your account,I will then come over and meet with you in your country to continue with my studies.
Please all I will want from you is to make your position known in this transaction as God have made it possible for me to come across your contact and I really know that he will not let me down. I will like you to keep this transaction to yourself , please do not exposes the transaction to people because of those that killed my father they are after my life.So I will like us to conclude this transaction within the shortest possible period so that the bank will effect the transfer of this money to your account and you will arrange for my coming over to meet you in your country for the invesment of this money.
For your assistance to me I will give you 15% of the total money after the money gets into your account.I am giving to you the contact of the bank so that you can contact them immediately and let them give you their banking procedure on how to transfer this money into your account as soon as possible so that I can come over and continue with my education.

BANK OF AFRICA CI,
Tel:00225 0645 8905
Email:boaico@yahoo.fr


The bank manager is Mr Kone Elvis,Please while contacting them try and let them know
that you are contacting them on my behalf Mr Micheal Delta, that you are my late father's business friend, that you wants to assist me get this money transferred out of this Africa.

I will be expecting to hear from you as soon as you reach them and let me know your outcome discussion with them.I will enclose the documents that covers this deposit immediately i hear from you on my next mail.I will give you my picture and the concerned document about the deposited money in my next mail as soon as I hear from you.

Have a nice working day,

With Love,

Micheal.



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