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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: Samuel Kabia <samkabiajunior@yahoo.fr>
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 08:05:21 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: From Samuel Kabia Guei


From : Samuel Kabia Guei
EMAIL : samkabiajunior@yahoo.fr

This mail may be a surprise to you because you did not give me the permission to do so and neither do you know me but before I will tell you about myself I want you to please forgive me for sending the mail without your permission.Please do not say because you do not know me you will not take me seriously,I need your help please.Read carefully and please send your response to my private address as stated bellow.
My name is Samuel kabia Guei and the son of the late military ruler of Ivory-Coast(Retired Brigadier General Robert Guei) who was killed in a political crisis which led to war in my country( Ivory-Coast) on 19th september,2002. My father,mother and two junior sister were killed by some soldiers believed to be loyal to the government because of my father's objection to some certain policies of the present government. I was lucky to have escaped with a sister who is the last child of the family that night because we were visiting a family friend in another city far away from our home. Some days before arrangements were made for us to leave Ivory-Coast for the Republic of Togo on the invitation of President Eyadema of Togo who granted us political assylum.

,I visited our home where my mother and my two junior ones were killed in our village and during the search for some documents in my father's room came accross some vital documents and the keys to a secret vault in the house.I took the keys and went down to where the vault is and there I discovered one box which were carefully hidden. With the aide of the documents I was able to open the box only to find out that the box were full of money in hundred dollar bills. I could not count the money because I was very shock to see it and again it is too much for me to count but the documents that I discovered in his room which led me to the boxes put the money at $10,000,000(Ten million USD). I locked it back carefully and arranged for the boxes to be moved with me through the help of some family friends to Abidjan the capital city where I deposited it with a security company for safe-keeping.I did not declare the content of boxes to the security company,I only declared it as
family valuables.

Now that they have made a peace talk. I decided that I have to look for a way to move out the money from my country. I cannot touch the money and even afraid to tell it to our family friends who have been coming to visit us in Togo. I decided that it will be better to move the money abroad where I can put to save and have it invested. This has been my reason for contacting you. I do visit Abidjan,my country now that it is a bit calm to make and see what arrangements can be made to have the money moved out.

I would have given you my telephone number so that you can call me in order to discuss the issue better but I'm afraid to do so because we have too many people around us who I would not want to know of the money.It will be better for me to communicate by the Internet untill we can make proper and solid arrangements about how to move the money, then we can meet secretly before we go ahead for the transaction.Never mind about your expenditure it will be taken care of though I may not be able to send some money to you right now but I will pay it back if you can do it and not only that,I am ready to offer 25% of the money to you for this assistance.It is not that I am paying you but for your assistance which I shall really appreciate.

Please I wish that this assistance be treated highly confidential.
Waiting to read your response about my proposal soonext.
Please send your response to my private mail address samkabiajunior@yahoo.fr
Thanks.
Sam KabiaGuei












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