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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: "Modesta Vallon" <modesta.vallon@yahoo.ca> (may be fake)
Reply-To: modesta_vallon@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 18:53:06 +0000
Subject: je besoin de votre aide svp.

Bonjour,

Mon nom est Modesta Vallon. Je suis un orphelin. Je suis en Ivoriean
de l'age de 18 ans.

J'ai la somme de 12.5Million dollars de Etats-Unis à investir dans
votre pays. Si vous le considérez que vous êtes capable de m'aider pour
investir ces fonds dans des affaires très lucratives, m'appellent
aussitôt que possible sur +22507611173, de sorte que je puisse expliquer

les modalités à vous.

J'aimerai aussi que vous êtes une personne de votre parole et une
personne digne de confinace qui ne disparait apres le confrmation d'argent

dan votre compte parce que cette argent est mon seul espoir dans la vie.

Merci et attente de votre appel.

Bien à vous.

Modesta Vallon



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