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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: <win_kuma277@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: win_kuma2005@yahoo.fr
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 22:35:46 +0900 (JST)
Subject: I need your assistance pls !

From Winnie Kuma
Abidjan ivory coast,
West Africa.

Dearest one,

I know that this mail may come to you as unespected since we have not met or known each other before, but I hope that you will treat this matter with love and fear of God.
We are the children of late Mr and Mrs Kuma Gando.

Our late Father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant in Abidjan, the economic capital of Ivory Coast before he was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outing to discusson a business deal.Before the death of our late father last year in a private hospital here in Abidjan.He secretly called me as the eldest bedside his sick bed and told me that he has a sum of $ 12.500.000 (Twelve Million, five hundred thousand dollars) left in a suspense account in a local Bank here in Abidjan, that he used my name as the next of kin in deposit of the fund since I am his eldest child.

He also explained to me that it was because of this wealth and some huge amount of money that his business associates supposed to balance him from the deal they had that he was poisoned by his business associates, that I should seek for a God fearing foreign partner in a country of our choice where my younger brother and I will transfer this money and use it for investment purpose, (such as real estate management and etc..while we continue our stduy since we were unable to finish up due to this incident).

Please,we are honourably seeking your assistance in the following ways.
1)To provide a Bank account where this money would be transferred into for safety and wise investing.
2)To serve as our guardian and of this money since I am only 21 while my younger brother is 18 years old and none of us knew any thing about business world.

Moreover,we am willing to offer you 10% of the sum as compensation for effort input after the successful transfer of this money to your designated account in your country.

Please if you are interesting kindly indicate your concern immediately so that we will introduce you to the bank officials as our late fathers foreign business partner who they will transfer this money to his account while you arrange for us to meet with you immediately.

Anticipating to hear from you soon.
Thanks and God Bless.
Yours faithfully.
Winnie & Nelson Kuma






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