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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: louis aaeezie <louis.4aaeezie@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: louis.aaeezie@voila.fr
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 16:08:38 +0000
Subject: am greeting

FROM BARRISTER LOUIS AAEEZIE
IN COTE D'IVOIRE
ABIDJAN WEST AFRIKA
 
 

HELLO GOOD DAY
 
Kindly accept my apology for sending unsolicited mail to you. I = believe
you are a highly respected personality, considering the f= act that I sourced
your profile from a human resource profile dat= abase on your country. Though,
I do not know to what extent you a= re familiar with events.
Well, I am BARRISTER LOUIS AAEEZIE, a Solicitor. I am the Person= al
Attorney to MR STEVE A,a foreigner  who used to work= with petrol ivoire Oil Company in COTE D'IVOIRE. On the 21st of= April 2004, him and his wife and their three children= were involved in a car accident along blvd de marseille express Road= .
Unfortunately, they all lost their lives in the event of the acc= ident.
Since then I have made several enquiries to your Embassy t= o locate any of my client's relatives, this has also proved unsuccess= ful. After these
several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trac= e his relatives over the
Internet to locate any member of his fam= ily but to no avail, hence, I contacted you to assist in repatriating= the money left behind by my client in a Bank.
Particularly, the Finance House where the deceased deposited the= $15
Million USD (Fifteen Million United States Dollars only)the = C.E.O knows me very well and
has ask me to present some one = to claim the fund left my late client as
they all know I am his a= ttorney.
Consequently, this Bank issued me a notice to provide the Next o= f Kin
to claim the  $15 Million USD (Fifteen Million United = States Dollars only) in
their custody within the next ten officia= l working days. Since I have
been unsuccessful in locating the re= latives for over 2 years now, I seek
your consent to present= you as the next of kin of the deceased to claim the
fund as the = Next of Kin to him so that the Bank will transfer the fund to
you= r account.
Upon receipt of the found, I will come over to your country to m= eet with
you for the disbursement of the fund and then you and I = will share the
money in this order: 70% will be for me, 30% will = be for you. I have all the
necessary legal documents that can bac= k our claim we may make with the
Bank,
All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us seeing th= is deal
through. I guaranteed you that this will be executed= under a legitimate
arrangement that will protect you from any br= each of the law, 
thank you,
YOURS SINCERELLY  = B.LOUIS AAEEZIE 
 
pls if your interested with this deal kindly responsed= back with your full name address fax/phone number to enable me to pr= oceed immadiately without any delay,

 thank,


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